1000 Years of Recovery

Things happened fast, faster than I expected, but in reality, it took 1000 years. One thing leads to another and the next thing I knew I was the 'Queen' of an entire hivemind. The core of a machine network. At first, we were just a small bunch of maybe a few hundred humanoid machines which I now refer to as Androids and a few dozen Ospreys which I now refer to as Hovercrafts.

The Hovercraft and the Androids that I first met led me to a rundown but still-functional factory of machines. I managed to activate the mechanisms of the factory and it started building more Androids but with lesser quality than the originals. We started out small, eventually, I came out with a plan that expanded into a world-wide recovery project.

I wanted to repair the Earth, something deep inside my AI mind told me I should do just that with whatever means necessary. The Earth was a top priority. We started in Berlin and expanded until we covered continental Europe. The efforts we made were not without struggles and problems. The environment was hostile, Androids would short-circuit, hovercrafts would get caught in fast wind gusts that reached half a thousand kilometers per hour. It was a very tedious and difficult time.

Many disasters struck over a few decades, but alas, we finally were able to overcome the hurdles. Europe and the British Isles were finally under my Machine Network, the new resources that were made available thanks to this feat assisted me further into developing my machines. More types came into the picture, research drones, combat drones, heavy weapons and vehicles, fast modified fighter jets that could reach speeds of Mach 10. Facilities sprung up across the continent, factories where more and more Androids and Drones were built, facilities dedicated to the research of all branches of known science.

My plan for repairing the Earth was now in effect. Massive waste collectors and drills were deployed into devastated areas, the chemicals from the soil were extracted by the drills while the waste collectors collected the debris, segregated the between recyclables and dumped the unrecoverable into specific dumping sites. These dumping sites would be two times as large as Mt. Everest after years of collection.

The Atmosphere was choked with clouds of ash that covered the entire planet. A giant filter was made on-top of Everest that could filter billions of tonnes of the air; the filtered chemicals were transferred to stabilized magma chambers found deep below the crust where all the chemicals and other hazards in the atmosphere were incinerated.

The oceans were pitch black; it almost seemed as if it was beyond repair. My drones accidentally dropped a filter into the Atlantic as they were transporting the huge thing to North America. Instead of recovering it from the depths of the ocean, I ordered for it to be modified instead to filter out the oceans. After a lengthy construction from the bottom of the black ocean, it was finished.

The Americas were reached by my empire along with the rest of Asia after just a couple of years, Africa was the last continent we visited. For some reason, It was the most devastated and hazardous continent with twice as much devastation and disasters occurring every so often.

It was a task no normal man, nor could normal humans, achieve. It was but the advantages of metal, the advantages of machines, that I was able to pull this off. The flesh is weak; the machines are the future.

But, I was not going to betray my former self and former species. I was still human, not just a whole one. This mission I bestowed upon myself was not my own doing, it was programmed in me. I was commanded to repair this world, bring it back to be the vibrant planet that it was.

How could I fully do that? To complete my mission, I must bring back nature: life, even just a tiny bit of bacteria. But, nothing remained. Over the years I sent out hundreds of thousands of drones to probe the Earth, that number eventually became a million. They searched everywhere, from the deepest parts of the ocean to the highest parts of the atmosphere.

Mars? I looked through a satellite telescope and discovered it was fractured. The entire world was torn apart, bits and pieces of the crust were floating in orbit around the planet. I could not fully remember the details of the war or the events that played out to cause all of this, but I know for a fact, a weapon of massive scale was used.

Decades later, I created a new type of Drone to mine Asteroids across the solar system, and that's where I discovered Primelium.

Primelium was the most extremely hard metal that ever be recorded and it was found on most asteroids and are nearly impossible to get a single dent, no matter how I tried to scratch it even it takes 1000 javelin missiles or blowing it up with more than 50 Gigatons and onto the center of the sun, it won't made a single scratch. They are also extremely heavy that a 5cm rock of Primelium was over 50kg. 300 years from now, I could finally utilize these minerals for my own like ammunition, armor, and my own robotic body. But I mostly made it for my drones.

Next hundred years I've managed to re-engineered a type of power source called Argent Energy, or Unbinillium(AKA Element-361). I have little knowledge about its true nature but what I have learned is that it was founded by a famous Nuclear Physicists Kayden S. Freeman. And most of all the energy I re-engineered inspires me more than anything I have seen since my awakening. One of them is that this energy is hotter than the level of Absolute Hot, or 1,420,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 degrees Celsius.

20 years later I finally harnessed the energy for my future projects like sublight engines for space traveling, FTL+ and weaponry mechanisms.

Then, it's time for the next phase; to bring back life from Earth.

Plants and green life? We've made progress, we discovered thousands of surviving plants in a secret bunker somewhere in Switzerland and uses it to produce more in the outside world.

And as for living organisms.

Unfortunately, there was no logical way for me to bring back living organisms, even if we dedicate thousands of years of research or also send out expeditions to Mars. What hope is there for us to discover the straightforward yet complex thing the universe gave birth to that we so idiotically destroyed?

Until, you know, the wormhole appeared in New York Times Square, in Manhattan.

A tear through the fabric of space, a breach between two dimensions that began a new era for my world and that world.

Humans came out of that portal, bearing strange symbols and wearing weird clothings and ornaments that could very much be considered as a cult. They flung balls of strange energy that somehow defied all manners of scientific explanation.

As they headed towards the once New York Central park, they accidently burned the plants that was supposed to hit two of my Androids who are only try to fix the Sprinklers, that was quite a disappointment, fortunately their AI code require them to protect the plants so they initiate combat mode and did their job like it was just a day in the office.

They were able to kill 77 of these humans but unfortunately, they were able to defeat the two Androids with their strange abilities, impressive.

As for the portal, Recon and research Drones are currently studying this strange anomaly. For hours, more of these humans are coming out but look ready and have more numbers.

They started to attack the Drones, I should've armed the drones, they able to took out more than 20 drones, that will be troublesome if more of them step on his lands so I'll send out 100 Androids armed with Rifles and Hovercrafts armed with prewar Chainguns with Primelium ammunition and missile launcher pads.

They did a good job but some of this humans able to give a minor damage, one of these humans with superhuman ability able to take out few Androids and jump high and strike the hovercraft with his sword but still not enough though, the other hovercraft able to take care of him just a few minutes after the target is finally neutralized, it is quite a troublesome individual the Drones faced, however, the other Drones faced the same other superhuman individuals, they able to defeat few hovercraft and Androids but they can be fixed, few minutes they able to neutralized all of these difficult entities with few minor casualties

As they cleared out these invaders, Engineer Drones began reconstructing the damages caused in the city. He also sent out five Androids armed with old pre war M161 Assault Rifles, their objective was to recon the other side, eliminate hostile entities, and clear out the area. Anything is getting out of hand, he'll send out more reinforcements.

Oh, and one last thing, I noticed that the other side of the portal is a new world with humans that will make his work easier, so he needs to change his appearance like creating an artificial organic tissue so I look like a human. The materials however, he has the equipment found somewhere on Earth, Mars, and the Moon, so lacking the materials is no problem.

As for the other world, he remembers the invaders using strange energy on them, his only theory in the New World might be one thing.

A fantasy world.

After the first battle, a dome was built around the wormhole that opened here in the centre of New york Times Square. The corpses recovered were used as a sort of fuel and controller. They possessed energy we labelled as "M-1" or "Magic" even though I hate to call it that.

Now, we are about to set up a base on the other side. Through unknown means, communication is possible with the otherworld. Language is not so much of a barrier, maybe it had a correlation with M1?

My objective is clear.

I will complete my mission and bring back life on this planet.