[Disrupting Consciousness Stream connection between host and body.]

[Redirecting Consciousness Stream connection and rerouting back to origin.]

[Constructing artificial metaphysical Mindscape.]

[Constructing fake body.]

[Injecting Consciousness stream…]

[Detected multiple Consciousness Streams….]

[Identifying Sub-Consciousness Streams…]

[Alooting privileges and authority…]

[Categorizing…]

[P4, ROOT.]

[P4-1 Alexa Saintsworths, Super User.]

[P4-2 Ale Saintsworths, Power User.]

[P4-3 Alexandra Saintsworths, Administrator.]

[P4-4 Main Core, slave.]

[Creating additional pseudo mental bodies…]

[Injecting Consciousness Stream…]

 

"I has arrived!"

"I have landed."

"Do we really need to do this every time?"

“[...Host, what is the meaning of this?]”

 

Three bodies manifested into the empty black void surrounding a crystal sphere, all versions of Alexa could recognize it, it was similar to what they had seen as a [Core] before, the only difference they could find was the size.

 

This one was "It's as big as Alexa's head!" Alexa was the first one to point.

 

"Well, weren't we doing Maintenance today? Why are we…here? Shouldn't [Core] be able to do it on its own? Actually…shouldn’t….That be around?" Ale said, looking around, for some reason, [Main Core] was around, but she couldn't see a fourth body as she had expected.

 

"It was deemed necessary for Main Core to show since its actions put us at risk." A cold mechanical voice resounded. Ale and Alexa turned around, looking as if they were looking for its source.

 

"It's there." At least till Alexandra brought them back and they found the older girl pointing with her finger at the fourth body that had manifested in this darkness.

 

The first one was the body of Alexa, the body of a blonde little girl wearing a sundress, just like the first time they had that body. The sundress had been the first thing they thought to make, mainly because it was on the suggested clothes to use.

 

Was it because it was light and cheap to make? Or because it allowed the people around to see that they weren't carrying any weapon? Alexandra didn't know, nor had Alexa or Ale thought about that.

 

The second body there was the one that Ale used, the body of a moody teenager, she was dressed in a pair of short pants and a oversized hoodie that covered most of her body, it was white and almost made it to her knee.

 

The first body they made up on a whim based on a visual blueprint, it had been just a longer version of Alexa's body, at least till they got enough blueprints to fix it. Ale was most of the time annoyed at the fact that her body was more of a rush job instead of a dedicated one. And the fact that the body hadn't worked that well was also the reason why Alexandra only got her body after they got a blueprint to base it upon. Something that made Ale mad at Alexandra.

 

Which brings us to the third body there, the body that Alexandra was wearing.

 

The body of a young woman, the most functional body of the three, the one that had most of the human functions available, the one that understood most of the social cues they had, and the body that had the most complex range of stable emotions.

 

Also the body that was able to see the world as a colder place, Ale liked to say that she saw the world for what it was, but there was the undertone of hope and dreams behind her, while Alexandra saw the world for what it was. And sometimes, she liked to make a joke out of it too.

 

But what was the fourth body then?

 

It was…a smaller marble that stood upon a pillar, unlike the Crystal sphere on the middle that just hovered there ominously, the body of [Main Core] was on a pedestal there. The only evidence of life was when it pulsed with bright light when it spoke.

 

It pulsed with blue light with each of its words.

 

"Main Core? Is P4 with you?" Ale asked, narrowing her eyes as she put on her hoodie.

 

Why?

 

"[No oth-]" Main Core's body shone in blue light as it attempted to answer.

 

"That is correct; we didn't think it was a good use of resources to strain our calculation zone more with the creation of an additional fictional body when we are already making four." Main Core's light turned red as the mechanical voice sounded once more.

 

"...that must be annoying," Alexa said nodding her head while peeking at the pedestal.

 

"[Extremely.]" Main Core said and then stood idle for a few seconds, "[I'll remain quiet as to allow host to speak with Host. Awaiting further orders.]"

 

Main Core said that, and its light dimmed till only a very faint red light remained.

 

"Thank you for the hard work!" Alexa said saluting the marble.

 

"So? What is what you want to tell us?" Ale asked turning to the marble, she…was not sure how to feel about P4.

 

"You…made us, or allowed our existence to settle within Alexa didn't you? There must be a reason for that." Alexandra chimed from the side.

 

"...P4 made you?!?!? It wasn't me?!?!?!?" Alexa asked surprised staring at Ale and Alexandra.

 

This was the first time she heard about that! But then again, she didn't remember actually making them. She had thought it was more of the 'Your brain changes how you see the world' thing she had!

 

But then again, at the moment, she didn't have a brain, so perhaps that made sense? How would Ale and Alexandra be here if they didn't have a brain at the moment? Actually…how was she here then?

 

Shouldn't she be the same as them?

 

"So you noticed huh?" Ale said smirking at Alexa.

 

The mean one was mean!

 

"Of course I knew, Alexa is smart too!" Alexa said harrumphing.

 

"You are indeed allowed to exist under my authority." The marble spoke.

 

"Nu-uh." Alexa said while sticking her tongue out, "I also have rights! And I don't like you pretending to be Main Core!"

 

Alexa frowned and pointed at the marble, "You should also speak face-to-face with us!" Alexa said and pulled her arm back as a new marble manifested on her hand, with one smooth motion Alexa threw it towards the marble that was speaking.

 

As soon as the yellow marble hit it, it released a high pitched sound and a bright light flooded the area, Ale turned her head to the side same as Alexandra. But Alexa kept staring.

 

"That was uncalled for." The mechanical voice of P4 sounded and when Ale turned to look at the source of the sound she found another little girl, this one was dressed like Alexa in a white sundress, but unlike Alexa, her hair was a mess.

 

As if no one had ever combed it, her dress was dirty with blood and dirt, and unlike Alexa, she was barefoot, and more importantly, her eyes were red. Crimson red, a great contrast with Alexa's yellow eyes.

 

"Nu-uh, we all are Alexa. So we should speak face to face!" Alexa said crossing her arms against her chest, "It's only fair, besides Main Core needs his own body."

 

"Main Core, unlike us, isn't built to mimic a Human; the closest body he could pilot is the body of our Cybernetic Remote Autonomous Battle Bot," P4 said as it moved its arms around.

 

Ale wondered why it stuck to that form, taking into account the fact that P4 didn't seem to care of how it looked, Ale would have thought it would pick either her form or Alexandra's.

 

“You mean…[THE CRAB]?” Alexa asked as she gave a step back and placed a hand on her mouth shocked.

 

"Yes," P4 answered.

 

"Wait, Main Core can only recognize the crab as a body to move? Why? Shouldn't it work with a humanoid body like ours? It was made to help house us, right? Then it should also be able to work on Human bodies." Alexandra said from the side. The thing had been made to house them, so it should work moving Human bodies too.

 

Their first body, the one that Alexa used, had been seeded into their files after all…Actually, why did they have that one?

 

"Main Core was designed to house our consciousness till we could transcend it; we weren't supposed to keep using it. We were supposed to start learning how to use the nanites manually and then move from that point." P4 said shaking its head, "We aren't moving as it was expected of us."

 

What is expected of us?

 

"We were supposed to…what, learn how to use Nanites without assistance? You saw how that went, right?" Alexandra said confused, "I suffered hell to get a functional body, and even that was only achievable because Main Core reduced the number of steps to make a body and we burned some Mana to make my body work as it should."

 

….right.

 

Alexandra had suffered quite a bit when Alexa tried to make her body without help…

 

"Exactly." P4 said, pointing to Alexandra, "We weren't supposed to develop in this way; our gimmick was supposed to be body modification and mimic-type shapeshifting."

 

"Are-Aren't we doing that?" Alexa asked confused.

 

"....No, what you are doing. What you all are doing is closer to material construction and deconstruction. You are passing as a shapeshifter since you are treating organic materials as material." P4 said with a defeated sigh, "You are also stretching the limits of information manipulation with the creation of artificial consciousness streams. A point that we weren't even supposed to know was possible to achieve."

 

…She wasn't supposed to know that?

 

"But we obviously have one," Ale said raising her hand.

 

"Correct," P4 answered back.

 

"And we obviously can see it," Alexandra said, pointing above her head, a yellow strand of data flowing towards the sky.

 

"Also correct." P4 once again, answered the statement.

 

"If we know that we have one, and we can see it…And our Nanites can interact with it…why wouldn't we try to copy, manipulate, and make new ones?" Alexa asked, tilting her head to the size.

 

"...Because…our mission is not one in search of power and might," P4 said in a low voice.

 

"But it is," Alexandra said, snapping her fingers; the sound seemed to reverberate all around them as a screen was raised behind her, three words engraved on the screen.

 

[Eat, Grow, Evolve]

 

"Oh right, I needed to do those!" Alexa said as she acted shocked at the revelation.

 

"That is the prime directive of BioWeapon Subject P4." P4 said, snapping her fingers too; behind her, an old-style television was raised; on its screen, the words in a childish style started being written; one could imagine the words being written by Alexa even, "You are not P4. You are Alexa Saintsworths. Your only goal in life is this one."

 

The words woven on the antique television ended up being written. Down.

 

[I wish to be happy.]

 

"...But Alexa is happy?" Alexa said confused. "We Are Happy…right?"

 

"I…guess? I am quite happy with how we are, I wish I had more time outside if anything, but so far I am quite happy." Ale said she was unsure of what this was; if someone asked if she was happy, then she would say yes.

 

She could be happier, of course, having more time for herself, going out to play, and making new friends. Exploring around, playing around…But even without that, she was quite happy.

 

"We are Happy." Alexandra said nodding her head, "We of course could be happier, but we are not sad, we are not suffering and even while we are having a hard time coming to terms with [Humanity], we are far happier than sad."

 

"...you only want to spend time with Sam," Ale said from the side.

 

"....that is beside the point, and you also want to spend time with Sam, even if not with his more…masculine side," Alexandra said, turning her head to the side, within this realm it was impossible for her to control her facial reactions, so she had opted to turn her face to the other side in an attempt to hide her blush.

 

"So you see, my mission was to make sure you were born. And then to fade away while helping you all develop your powers. You assigned that job to Main Core and then when allowed our Core to develop in a weird way, messing out even more our Core." P4 said with yet another sigh, "And if that wasn't enough, Alexanders isn't even acting as he should. This world diverged too much."

 

The what now?

 

"The what now?" "The what now?" "The what now?"

 

"And, of course, the fricking Scrambler makes everything even worse," P4 continued speaking, ignoring Alexa, Ale, and Alexandra's questions. "And that doesn't even take into consideration Sapphire, she shouldn't even exists here."

 

….I….what?

 

"Ignore that." P4 said, turning to look at the other three girls, "Grandpa. Thought rollback."

 

 

"...who are you?" Alexa said as her eyes turned icy cold, both Ale and Alexandra's eyes did the same, their bodies shone in blue light as the multiple body armors they had worn materialized on them. All of them were fully armed.

 

Alexa with the kid-size Arm-mament, while Ale had the full version. On the other hand. Alexandra was wearing a pair of knives stuck to her arms.

 

"Do it, might as well. Not like she can do anything as she is right now." P4 said ignoring Alexa, Ale and Alexandra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

Alexa was back!

 

No, wait, wasn't she already here?

 

"....what happened?" Alexa asked confused looking around, something...was not right.

 

"We were about to ask P4 what did it wanted and Alexandra and P4 got into a discussion about what our mission was." Ale answered with a shrug, "Stop thinking about crabs and focus Alexa, this is important."

 

....was that it?

 

Alexa wasn't sure, she felt as if something was missing, and couldn't help but wonder why P4's red eyes bothered her that much. Looking around she noticed how behind Alexandra was the old mission that she knew but hadn't done much about.

 

And behind P4 was the [I wish to be happy.], what they thought of as their [Core Wish], the thing that allegedly triggered their [Core] creation.

 

A thing that...Alexa couldn't find a logical reason to exists, when they got their [Core] Alexa knew nothing about [Happiness] or about being [Happy], she wasn't even sure she was a person then. And even so P4 said that they had wished for this?

 

She didn't think so, but for some reason it seemed....right?

 

What was that about?

 

"So, what else do you wish to ask?" P4 said turning to Alexa.

 

What else did she want to ask? She hadn't asked anything yet!

 

"amm...." Alexa said panicking, she hadn't thought about what to ask! "Give us back Main Core!"

 

Alexa ended up saying pointing at the small marble that was Main Core, and who was now on sleep mode.

 

"We need him to do the thing!" Alexa said nodding, they really needed to do the think, "Witouth him we need to waste the Mana thing! And it feels weird to use the Mana thing!"

 

Really, wouldn't it be easier to use Main Core since they already had him? Why would they take it away?!?

 

"That was decided by [Core], not by me." P4 said pointing at the giant sphere in the room, "[Core] how much can you release the restrictions on Main Core?"

 

Weirdly enough, P4 addressed the giant sphere on the black room.

 

 

And got no answer.

"[Core]? Can we have Main Core back pretty please?" Alexa said turning back to the big sphere. It was weird how it didn't want to answer P4.

 

 

"Yay!" Alexa said while jumping.

 

"That is that, do not overly trust anyone else with our secrets. Be it a Saintsworths or otherwise." P4 said before starting to disappear.

 

 

"That is what I said," P4 said as its voice was the only thing that remained, "Before giving your trust to anyone else, beware of what you share. Especially since you are developing your Core as a Construction and Deconstruction Core. Being a Molecular Core is rare enough, but should they find out that your limits do not lie there. Danger would befall upon you."

 

"What about the scrambler?" Alexandra suddenly said from the side, "What's his deal?"

 

"...You should be safe from his tampering, but beware of him too. If anything try to get Alexanders to deal with him." P4's voice said.

 

"Wait, why would the asshole even help us?" Alexandra said confused.

 

"Why now...because he is our twin brother after all." P4's voice said before disappearing completely, only...this time it sounded different, not so mechanic and more...child-like...almost like...

 

"Weird, why did P4 speak like weird-Alexa?" Alexa said tilting her head.

 

"That was your voice Alexa," Ale said from the side.

 

"Nu-uh, I don't sound like that! I heard myself all the time and I don't sound like that!" Alexa said sticking her tongue out, "My voice is cuter!"

 

But Alexandra knew better, that was indeed the voice of Alexa. And that made her think more deeply into that, they had never found where weird-Alexa had come from...

 

"Core!" Alexandra said turning to the big sphere in the room, "Where is weird-Alexa?"

 

 

...............Dang it.

 

"Well, one thing less to worry about!" Alexa said happily, but Alexandra couldn't help but dread about that.

 

If...weird-Alexa came from P4...then it meant that it wasn't quite as detached as it pretended to be. And why would it pretend to be so detached then?

 

What...what was the play here?