Andaros finished working on his latest unit, and placed the tools for working on the new unit on his desk. The experimental new drones were equipped with a miniature cold fussion reactor, and several high-grade weapon systems. The drones were designed as guard dogs, and Siri had been delighted to learn that the drone units were intended to have the same learning capability as her. Andaros and Siri modified a base version of her core and it's initial coding as a base for the new units, creating a new A.I. for each of the devices. Equipped with advanced sensors and camoflage systems, their main function was to act as scouts and support units for the Sabertooths, badgers, deerlings, and the velicoraptors that had recently joined the group allied with Andaros and the manor.

While experimental, these new units were in the last stage of developement. The six drones had been created using six different templates. They all had similar functions, but, like their personalities, they had all had different distinctions which set them apart from the other drones. Siri had made the suggestion to create them this way. In her words, "If they're exactly the same, they'll likely fight each other until only one remains. There can be only one! . . . Or something like that. . ." Andaros understood her point, and decided to follow her advice, so each unit had different weapon systems which matched their preprogrammed dispositions.

Andaros left the naming of these units to Siri, who would act as the "big sister", and leader of the group. He instructed them to follow Siri's orders, and so far they had done just that. This seventh unit was special, and was designed for the task of protecting himself as a concession to demands by the others living in the manor. It was larger than the drones, and while it shared many of the capabilities of the drones, it was absolutely different from them. The unit was much larger then it's sisters, and was the only one with a humanoid, bio-tech engineered, design. It did not have an A.I., and was instead a second body for Siri, a second skin if you will.

The unit's completion was taking much more time to implement than the other drones, as the system for it was actually much more advanced than those of the others. It had an A.I. Core designed to be the same as that of Siri on a much smaller scale, and the two were changed to make them linked to a degree that one could not fully imagine. The bio-tech engineered second body had been a request from Siri, which had quickly gained support from all those living in the manor, besides himself and the four young girls, who were still fairly unresponsive. In the end he reluctantly agreed to make it, but went overboard in creating the design and assisting in implementing it.

Siri was excited to be able to try out the new body, as it was a living body and would allow her to experience what living as a human was like, though without the weakness of a human body. Her skin was still soft, but incredibly strong, especially when compaired to the human body. There were some parts that were pure tech designed to work off the body's power, and these were what he had been working on and improving so as not to cause her to harm herself when using them to defend him.

The body had been grown to Siri's specifications by a company which was ironically owned by the prison's director, and quickly shipped to the prison along with equipment designed to keep it alive until she was officially able to be fully connect with, and inhabit it. The installation locations where the regular tech were installed were grown into it by that company, and designed to not interfere with the body's bones. They were melded to the body along with connections designed to connect the body's natural bionetics and the standard technology together to power the standard technology through the biometrics of the genetically engineered body. To Andaros's unease, this body had all the functions of a normal female body, including the reproductive functions. This fact alone gave him great distress, but he reluctantly had to agree to it due to the insistence of Qora, and a personal request to allow it from Siri, who was interested in experienceing how hormones affected humans.

The core's connection for Siri's new body was imbedded in the brain of that new body, and was actually a miniaturized implant version of her main core. How it worked was allowing her cognitive functions to connect and control the body, while allowing the brain's various functions to act as intended in nature. This would allow Siri to more accurately feel how humans do, so he had trouble objecting to this setup. In fact, he had only helped Siri design the core implant unit, and it was capable of completely copying her consciousness into the body, allowing her to become one with the body and yet still control her original form if she wished. The implant was built to exacting standards and installed by Thraxc's subordinate company during the growth process of the new body, along with the bio-tech equipment installation locations. Once it had arrived, Andaros finally installed all the tech that was designed to be installed in the body. They then had to test over and over until they could confirm the installed devices would not harm the new body, and were unobtrusive.

Andaros pushed in the latest installation, and let out a sigh. It was certainly hard to concentrate with such a beautiful female body in front of him, and these upgrades were difficult to do with anything more than a bikini on, so the body''s generous proportions were, simply put, shown off and had a habit of distracting him from his job.

Siri had designed the body based on his mother, but then modified it so much that she could be confused for her sister, or niece. The genetics were completely different, but the looks were like that.

There were a few big differences between the two bodies of his mother and Siri; one being Siri's huge bust when compaired to his mother's moderate size, the second being her hips, which were obviously wider than his mom's, third was her gorgeous, well-endowed butt where his mother had a much more plain and flatter, though still nice, one by comparison, with her long, shapely legs that would make his short-legged mother jealous being the last major difference.

The most alike body part between the two was their faces, as she had only made a few minor changes such as eye, and hair color, so that he wouldn't be tormented by looking at an exact replica of his lost mother's face all the time. His mother had been quite beautiful, especially her face that was very pleasing to the eye, so she kept that very close to the original, despite the minor changes. Siri's new body was on a whole different level from his mother's beauty, and it was quite taxxing on his mental resources. Only the similarity between their faces had allowed him to maintain his composure in that situation.

Andaros couldn't help sighing over the number of beautiful females around him, and the complex situation he was in. Over the past month since meeting the new females to their group, Andaros had agonized over the situation with Reiya and Meiya, the trouble with Caera, and Qora's insistence on trying to make him sleep alongside the lovely sex slave, Yleiha. He was surprised by this insistence, but she didn't show any jealousy so long as she got her time with him each day, so he decided to leave the situation be. Too many things were piling up, and he was completely frustrated by all of it, so he couldn't be bothered to complain about one more.

"Master, are all the modifications complete," he heard Siri ask.

"Uh?" {Ah, yes, they are complete.}

"Would you like me to test the new changes," she asked.

{Yeah, just a basic test,} he answered, {I'm still not satisfied enough with the modifications to let you walk around in the new body without first verifying that you won't have a tragic accident first.}

"Alright, I'll just test the tech from this side and be ready to cut the connection in case of a problem then," she replied without being bothered by his cautiousness. If she were to speak her mind about his caution, Siri would have to admit she was quite touched by it, although she was a bit impatient to be able to actually experience the new body as well.

{Thanks,} Andaros replied, {I'll step back to a safe position.}

Siri began to test the arm equipment that had been giving them trouble once he had stepped away at a distance she considered safe. Nothing seemed to be wrong, but he couldn't really tell until she gave her input on what she felt when activating it. The biggest trouble with the device they'd been testing was the power required was too much, so he was having to tweak the device to adjust for that without causing an instability in it and resulting in a chain reaction that would kill the new body and possibly Siri if she was fully merged with it. Replacing the body was a lot easier than replacing all the experience Siri had, and Andaros had come to rely on the A.I. so he didn't wish to risk damaging, or losing her. Thus, he wouldn't let her fully connect with the new body until they had fixed this issue.

After a few moments of testing, Siri said, "It's no use Master." Pausing for a few moments, the A.I. decided to voice her thoughts. "Isn't there some way to provide more power?"

{I cannot provide more power using any of the devices I have available, I do not have enough space,} he told her, {There is one power device that might work, but the designer disappeared, and has not been seen in years.}

"What device would that be Master?"

{It is a power device about 1-2 inches in diameter which can produce enough power to easily power all your new body's devices combined and still have room to spare,} Andaros explained. {The people I heard about it from hypothesized that the device gathers an unknown type of r-a-d-a-t-i-o-n and converts it into standard forms of power. Unfortunately, I have neither the knowledge, nor do I believe I have the materials to build such a device. It is too bad, if we could stabilize the shield, it would go a long ways to protecting both you, and others. If the device was as powerful as they said, I could even upgrade the field further so that it would be able to withstand even more damage.}

"Hey, Andaros, food's ready," the gentle sounding woman from Teraise's team interrupted their conversation. Andaros turned to see her staring quizically at the exposed device in the arm of the new body. "What's the matter, having troubles," she said after looking at his wryly smiling face, "Mind if I take a look?"

{Sure.}

"Hmmm, a Glofin/Schaes Shield generator," she murmurred, catching him off guard. "This is a good choice for a solid-materialization force field generator. Well, it has stability, and power, but you're never going to be able to power it up with bionetics, even if the body can produce more than the usual amount."

{You know about that?} Andaros as quite surprised.

"Eh? Ah, yeah, of course I do. Do you mind if I rummage through your parts, and use some of your tools," she asked him.

{Yes, that would be fine.}

"Alright, go get us both some food, and I'll show you how to build something nice," she said smiling at him.

{Okay, I will return shortly,} he answered, and left.

It took Andros about fifteen minutes to return with two cafeteria-style trays full of piping hot food under covers, two cups, and a good old fashioned canteen. He found that Kanelle had pulled out a number of micro-chips, wiring, and various small-scale devices and tools and set them neatly on the workspace near Siri's new body.

"Oh, good, you're back," she told him. "Thanks, I'm starving," she added on as she took a tray from him.

Andaros separated the two cups he had brought, placed them down, and carefully poured some cold juice into the cups.

"Oh, thanks Andaros," she said in between bites, he nodded his head and began to eat himself. "Ah, it's Teraise's food today, huh? *sigh* It's edible, but he could stand to learn a thing or two from you. Now, your food I could eat every meal of every day, his. . . not so much."

From that point, the two of them were silent as they ate, mainly because they were focused on eating. Once they had finally finished, Kanelle spoke to him once more.

"What I'm about to show you how to build doesn't leave this room. Using it in your drones and such is fine, but don't tell anyone how to build it, okay?"

{Yes, understood.}

"Good, creating this device almost got me killed, so it is absolutely imperative that you do not let anyone know that you know how to build it," she told him. "The device I'm about to show you how to build is most likely the device that you were telling Siri about. Siri, make sure you don't tell anyone about this either, okay?"

"Understood Mistress Kanelle," came the reply, "I will certainly not speak of this and will encrypt the data under the most strenuous encryption methods available to me as I do not wish to endanger either Master Andaros, or yourself Mistress."

"Thank you, Siri," she replied, smiling in her gentle manner. "It is very important that you do so, I lost my entire family due to this device. I am only confiding in showing you this device because it is important in order to provide the power necessary to protect yourselves, otherwise I would continue to keep it secret. Luckily, we are far from those who would want this information, otherwise, I would not be telling you about this process. Pay attention."

Kanelle then began to explain how to device worked, and what it did. It turned out that the device did indeed absorb radiation in order to produce power, but the radiation type was not mysterious, nor was it a new form of radiation. The device used the most commonly known form of heat radiation, infrared, to produce it's power. It used a very small amount of heat in order to produce quite a massive amount of power, and thus could produce an almost infinite amount of power.

The power produced was so much that the costs could be offset by more than 3,000 times just by powering an old earth portable heater with the device. It was quite simple to make when considering the materials, but the process of making the device was something that would be quite impossible to understand if not for her careful instruction. It was an idea that almost no one would ever think of, and in his mind she was already a genius that would only occur once in a trillion years. At least, that's the way it appeared to the young man with the angry eyes.

{So that is how it is done,} Andaros replied while deep in thought. He then began to rummage through his materials and began to build his own device.

"Eh? That's wrong, why are you doing it that way," Kanelle asked suddenly as he worked.

Andaros was busy working, so he quickly signed, {Wait,} before continuing his work. Halfway through, he extracted the shield device from the arm, and began to disassemble and rebuild the device while incorporating the device he was putting together. When he was done, there was a completely new shield device there on the desk. he connected some wires to it, and indicated, {Please send the usual signal to activate the device Siri,} as he held the device carefully.

"Understood master, please step back Mistress Kanelle," Siri asked, as the young woman was indeed in the activation area.

After Kanelle moved back, the signal was sent, and a semi-transparent shield suddenly appeared about half an inch in front of the device, sitting there floating in the air. Andaros moved the device, and the shield moved with it. As she observed, Kanelle could swear that the field was much less transparent than the normal shield. As far as these fields went, the less transparent they were, the more powerful they would be. A hundredth of a percent less transparency could increase the strength of the force-field by 10 times the strength, and this was at least 3% less light transmittance than the the normal for the original shield she had seen.

"This, what did you do," she asked, looking at the field in a dumbfounded manner.

{I rebuilt and improved the field generator using the device you showed me,} he explained.

"HOW?!"

{I took the two concepts and combined them by modifying your device,} he explained after having Siri turn the field off. {They were compatible, and I thought the power device you showed me could fix the inherent issues with the shield generator. So, I took the idea for your power core, and modified it to increase the stability of the shield generator, in addition to powering it. Thankfully, it worked out.}

"YOU DID WHAT," she screamed. "You only saw me do it once, and you completely remodelled the device to your purposes! Are you a monster?!"

{No, I do not think so,} he answered, a bit befuddled.

She sighed heavily after seeing this, and looked grumpily at him. "I've been trying to improve that device for years, and you go and modify it within mere moments of me showing you how to make it, you better explain what you did," she told him unhappily.

{Understood,} he answered, smiling wryly.

Andaros then began to explain his idea, how he had modified the design, and why the design was changed. His idea was as simple, and yet complex as the idea that had spawned her creation of the original, it left her impressed, and a bit shocked that she hadn't thought of it in the time since she created the first power core that had cost her family's lives.

"This does not go beyond this room," she instructed seriously, "make sure you encrypt this information so much that it would take them trillions of years to crack Siri."

{Is it that important,} Andaros couldn't help asking.

"Indeed it is, Master," Siri answered for her, "Whomever was willing to kill her family for the device would certainly be more than willing to do so once again if this data was leaked. It must be a closely guarded secret, and the information must not be allowed to leak lest it costs you both your lives and those of all who are on this planet."

"We may be able to tell Master Thraxc, but we have to be careful in doing so," Kanelle said. "He certainly won't harm us, but there are many bugs in his offices so he has to activate the anti-spy measures before it is spoken of."

"You don't need to worry about that Miss Drek'n'lora," Thraxc's voice suddenly sounded out. "I have made certain that the location you are in is protected against eavesdropping by anyone but myself. Oh, and have activated the anti-spy counter-measures, in both locations as soon as my helper A.I. informed me of an interesting conversation going on over there, so there's no need to be tense. Siri, I'll have him take a look at the data, so please allow my assistant permission to view the file when you apply your encryptions, and send it to him via this feed."

"Understood Director Thraxc," Siri responded, a bit grumpy that he was hijacking her audio feed. After a moment, she added, "Encryption completed, sending now."

"Thank you Siri," he thanked her, "We'll keep this data confidential, and I'll have our technicians go over the design and the data later on. Those fields won't work against me, but I believe they should have the power to even withstand a battleship's main cannons if it is needed. Hurry up and install the device, and bring Siri's new body online, my helper A.I. has been quite interested in how it will turn out, as am I."

{I can install the device, but I have no clothes ready for Siri currently," Andaros answered hesitantly.

"That's fine, it's why she has one of those old earth bikinis on after all," Thraxc responded without any qualms.

Andaros could only sigh before replying, {Understood.}

The installation took a bit, as he had to make modifications to the mounts on the device side, but once it was ready it only took a moment to install. After that, they started the procedure to transfer Siri's consciousness to the new body. That actually took much longer than the installation of the new shield, and then she finally opened her eyes.

"I can see. I can see through eyes like yours Master," was the first thing Siri said, then started crying. "Tears, these are tears? I had heard that people cry both when sad or happy, so this is what it feels like to cry from happiness," she added while sniffling. "Mwaster, pwease desconnect the lifesaving devices, I wish to experience more of what it is like to be alive."

The beginning of her last sentence was a bit garbled due to her happy tears, but she managed to make the rest fairly clear. Following her request, Andaros's did so, but told her to be patient and let him work on her arm weapon while she got used to sitting up and moving her limbs. She gladly agreed, and messed around while he modified her right arm's weapon using the new power supply modified from Kanelle's original device. One could call it the crystallization of both of their understanding, their current magnum opus. Once the modifications were made, he reinstalled the device so that it would be available for her use when she needed it. Thraxc also had them transfer the data for the new weapon, once it was completed.

After the device was modified and installed, Andaros asked Siri, {Do you want to try walking?}

"Yes please, Master," Siri replied.

"Take my hands," Kanelle gave Andaros a wink as she stepped in front of Siri.

She had noticed that Andaros was having trouble keeping his eyes on Siri's face despite his hard work, so she stepped in to help. In addition, it would be best if the one helping could speak in an easy manner in order to give instructions, which Andaros could, quite obviously, not easily do. After Siri managed to take her hands, she helped her to stand, and patiently worked with her until she could stand on her own without much trouble. After this, she patiently helped her to learn to walk. This was a long, difficult process, due to her being like a newborn baby when it came to controlling her new body, but by evening she was beginning to walk on her own, albeit a bit shakily.

Unfortunately, there were no clothes her size prepared, and she wouldn't be able to put them on herself anyway with her current control, so Andaros had to take her hand and help her walk to the manor proper in the current bikini. This ended in a situation where Andaros was forced to continue walking with his arm sandwiched between two mountain peaks while Siri clumsily walked. It's one thing to walk while using a robotic body, but using a living body is much more complex, and so she was still quite unsteady on her feet. As a result, Andaros was stuck between heaven and hell as he helped her make it into the manor, and Kanelle looked on while giggling quietly to herself.

Siri was introduced to everyone in person, then Andaros had to endure Qora's attempts to force him to have sex with the new Siri. This was a very taxxing affair for the young man, but he managed to stave her off, although he could not avoid Siri sleeping in the bed with him and Yleiha. Of course, he didn't get much sleep with two very naked girls sleeping in the same bed with him, and one of them requiring something specific from him, so the next day was hell once again. The impact of two naked beauties sleeping against him was far too much stimulation, so sleeping was just too hard, even after dealing with Yleiha's needs. It didn't help that Siri was very curious about the whole affair and tried to join in herself. The next day he had the same problem, but on the third night he passed out unceremoniously, and didn't even notice the two climbing in bed and snuggling up with him after taking advantage of his body's defenseless situation. If he knew that Siri had been initiated to sex during this time, he would likely be very distraught.

Qora got an enormous laugh out of the situation, so she didn't mind the two taking his attention during this time, but on the fourth day he had to pay the piper. That night, she wore him out more than the two nights of sleeping with the two girls had, combined. The next night he once again collapsed into bed.

Eventually, clothes and nightgowns were made for Siri and Yleiha, so he was finally able to get the two to wear something at night, which both helped, and hurt the situation, but by this point he was too weary to care anymore. Hiding a body like Siri's was something that induced fantasizing in most men, so it could be considered counter-productive. Following wearing clothing, Siri developed a shyness involving the partially see-through nightgowns Qora had ordered, and her previous bikini. The situation was a bit incomprehensible, but it occurred all the same. Even Siri herself did not understand this reaction logically speaking, but she adapted with time. The worst part was she had no problem being seen naked by the young man, but wearing skimpy clothes caused her to be quite shy.

Andaros didn't mind letting Siri have the experience of living, but it had resulted in increasing worries. Caera had become jealous, and he would often wake to find the two beauties on his sides, and Caera laying on his chest, making it hard to breathe. His worries were only piling higher and higher, and it wasn't good for his health. The worst part was Siri was slowly getting more and more attached to him, and more and more difficult to avoid being stuck with an arm in between her cleavage. He hoped that the capsules for Trinity would arrive soon so he could manage to get some time to himself, at this rate he would end up with severe trouble. As for Thraxc, he had forced Andaros to accept the twins as "potential" mates, meaning that he would eventually be forced to take them as wives. He hadn't even been able to properly marry Qora yet, and now he had at least 4 other women, and a cat trying to attract him. One was a slave, but the other three women were difficult to avoid, especially Siri who was always protecting him.

The continuously increasing worries were beginning to get to him more than was acceptable. He couldn't complain much about the issues with Siri as he was partially responsible for those, but that didn't mean he was comfortable with the extra attention from her either. He was not aware she had already slept with him, so he consoled himself that at least they hadn't done anything yet. Little did he know that wasn't the case at all, and Siri would often have her way with him while he was asleep. For Andaros's part, he had wet dreams of the beauty, but had no clue that they were actually real, rather than just being realistic delusions. Yleiha and Qora kept silent about the situation, but sometimes giggled incomprehensibly at the young man.

Most of the time, Caera actually chased her off of Andaros, and the reason she was found lying on top of him was that she was trying to "protect" the master she silently considered hers. Of course, there were times she took advantage of him without his knowing, but her shame over her initial rape of him limited these occurances. If he were to know the things that were going on in his sleep, he would likely just give up on everything. It was fortunate for him that he did not know what was going on at night at this time, as his instability from his mother's death was only growing at the time. He would later learn of what had happened, but by that time he would be stable enough to withstand the resulting feelings.

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Time passed and nine months after his arrival on the planet, the pods for Trinity Online finally arrived. Andaros was surprised at the fact that four animal pods were also included, alongside the various other pods. The pods were not difficult to install, as they had their own power supplies and communications systems built in, and were simply required to be placed in the proper place and secured. The most they had to do was install the anchors for the devices. These pods had been modified for the prison's purposes by the staff of Supercal in order to allow the prison staff to monitor the players' gameplay, so they were a bit different from the usual pods. Thraxc had paid an exhorbitant amount for the modifications but, strangely enough, Andaros's pod was not included in the modifications. This confused Andaros, but he wasn't one to complain about such a thing.

Andaros found himself dwelling on the issues with the girls and Caera once again, but doing this would not help so he forced himself to stop dwelling on these things. He followed the prompts given by the capsule's A.I., and began to register his new account while considering the things he learned in the classes the prisoners and his companions were required to take.