The Calm Before The Storm Part One

*Bang!*

Ai had locked herself up for two days straight working on the new systems for the base. The noise just now was her firing her pistol towards the wall. "Finished!" Ai yelled out. She raised her arms up over her head as she cheered but she stopped and sniffed the air, then sniffed her armpits which caused her nose to scrunch up. "Before anything I need to shower." She had been so busy the past four days that she had not showered even once. She got up from her chair, holstered her pistol, and stretched all her limbs before walking out of the room, locking the door behind her. 

"Master! The sky's green!" Kuri yelled out as she ran over with Ayase following behind her. 

"Then do not go outside for the time being. Once the sky turns green it may not stop raining for a few days. The rain when the sky is green is very dangerous. Come, we will go shower!" Ai said before pulling the two girls along. The two little ones moaned and groaned about not wanting to bathe but Ai still made them join her. She was in a very good mood! She had finally completed her first test after building a larger sized replica of the barrier the type two machina had created. It was only three times the size of the original but it was enough to let Ai know that she was able to make a larger barrier. Her next task was to create the dishes needed to make one that can cover the entire base but at the time not be too noticeable for others to easily spot. She had a few ideas but she would need to build the prototypes first. 

The fact that they were having radioactive rain was also a good thing, it would give her more time to settle the collars as well. Since no group of humans would be able to walk around in the radioactive showers and bother her base while she was still preparing. 

As Ai, Kuri, and Ayase walked by the room Mai was in, Ai yelled in for her to come as well. The four girls had a nice relaxing bath as they chatted with each other. After which Ai felt much more relaxed. After a bite to eat she went back to working in her workshop. This time though Mai tagged along. 

"I used the last test subject today. He wouldn't stop screaming so I ended up killing him." Mai said as she sat on the loveseat that was pushed up against a wall. 

"Is his body still in the base?" Ai asked.

"No, I saw the clouds were starting to build up in a greenish color so I had the little ones help me drag him out on a cart to dump him outside the base walls. I figured the radioactive rain will help get rid of it." Mai replied as she laid down.

"Okay, once things settle down here, we will get some more. Maybe when those people attack us we can grab a few of them to hold you over. How has your progress been?" Ai asked.

"Well, with the program you have made, I figured out how the signals are sent but the results seem to be different for each person. So I am not sure how we will need to interpret this. Maybe you can do something with the recorded data and write a program for the eye to sense the pattern for your brain automatically. Since I do not know if the signals will get messed up in the process. You will need to look at the data when you are free." Mai explained.

"Oh ho!? Mai, you are sounding more and more like a professional. Now, who says school will teach you everything you need to know? The way I see it, if you are willing to learn a trade you can learn it at a young age and would have no need to go through so many years of schooling, learning useless shit. Just learn what interests you from the start. Not only would people in these fields advance by leaps and bounds, but we would have smarter more mature people in the world. Not that it matters now anyway. If things were as how I described, then more than likely humans would have been long dead before you or I were born. To be honest this is a scary thought." Ai pumped her fist into the air as she suddenly started chanting: "Go, stupid humans! Go, stupid humans!"

"You as silly as always Ai. But I am glad you are more relaxed now since you were almost like a block of ice when this all first started. Now you seem so full of life." Mai said as she yawned, she had a long day experimenting so she was already tired.

"That is because I am not spending every day worried about dying. Right now we have each other, two mini disciples, and three sla… fools to do our bidding. When I first came back in time, you have no idea how nervous I was about everything. I kept wondering how I was going to protect my loved ones and how I would survive past the age of twenty four. But now the more tech the A.I. so generously, dumps on me, I can reverse engineer it and make it work for us. Like Spot here!" Ai patted the type two Machine which was now operational again.

"Ai did you really name the damn robot, Spot?" Mai couldn't help but laugh at how childish Ai was being.

"Hey, Spot is a good name. I plan to make a white shell for Spot and make it look more like a dog." 

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