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"Another pair of cannibals." Tandy rolled her eyes. "Fuck." She sat at the computer terminal, her skin still red and tender after being released from the vat, but she had already adapted quite well.

'Doctor, the computer is reminding you that you need some sun today.' Jill's voice came through the system. 'If you're still baby assed tender when Aya wakes up, you'll have to explain it to her.' Jill reminded her of the obvious. She heard Tandy sigh mentally.

'Alright, alright. I'll go out on the rooftop balcony to tan a bit. Hm, still tender and red. Needs more time to dry, some oil to penetrate the surface, yet exercise to maintain its elasticity. Hey, Jill? Did Aya indicate which ration packs I should ingest?'

'Top shelf, doctor.' She felt Jill smile. 'She specially formulated those packs for you, and the nutrition you would need once you came out. Once you acclimatize to the packs, she wants you to return to real foods. She also left this for you to peruse at your leisure.' She sent her a file.

'Hm, an underground facility in a rural area? Mostly forested. Some unworked farmland. Deep stone shelf, and even deeper water table.' She stayed silent for a few minutes. 'Did she plan that far ahead?'

'So you saw it too?'

'How could I miss it? With the details about underground power production for lighting and computer systems, she plans to take us completely underground. We're talking the kind of bunker doomsday folks talk about.' Tandy said, but opened another file, one marked classified.

'Oh.' She said softly.

'Doctor? Is something wrong?' Jill asked.

'No. Nothing. Don't worry about it. I have to go sun myself before she wakes up, don't I? I'm grabbing a few nutrient packs and going upstairs.' What caught her attention was the classified label, the secondary label of 'Maintain Secrecy At All Costs', and the plans themselves.

The underground base is not only a bunker for survival, but also a facility to build a ship that could take them to Mars, or beyond.

Aya was designing it interactively, and the last update was only a few days ago, the day she went into hibernation to protect herself from the pain of this transformation.

* * *

"Any word on the boss?" Mer asked as Kata finally came back to the club. She shook her head.

"No, she's still in hibernation mode." Kata felt Mer poke her shoulder.

"You still seem like our Kata." Mer said. "As muscled as you always were." Kata grinned.

"True, but these aren't muscles now. I can crush a man's head with one hand, and bend steel like it's made of paper." Kata sighed. "I have normal human strength mode, which allows me to interact with you guys until I adapt to this power, and full powered mode, where I have access to it all, but on my terms." Mer nodded, then turned away a bit.

"Jessie has been asking about you every day. The girls try to keep her busy, but like the rest of us, we have our favorites. Jenni still belongs to Brit and Ava, while Ava likes to spread herself around a bit. Jia flexes on everyone." Mer said with a smirk. She could enjoy anyone she wanted, Jia, Jessie, Ava, or Jenni, but she hadn't found her special pet yet.

"Looks like I'll get to try out these new attachments the boss built into me." She took off her backpack, and pulled out a strange device.

"What the hell is that?" Mer said as she looked it over.

"It's a thruster, with vibrating and pulsating surfaces. Meant to really give them a going over. It looks like a horror show, but that's because I need to cover it with the removable sheathe." Kata grinned.

"I am going to have so much fun making up for lost time." Kata said with a grin. "Time to choose the next one, Mer. The boss is down while she evolves, but the doctor has almost all the same skills. She's ready for some work, mostly to keep her busy while the boss is in hibernation."

"Alright, so who should we send?" Mer thought for a moment. "Hey, Leen! You're up! We'll take over your slut, I mean your slot, while you're gone!" Mer called out. She heard a grunt.

"Bitch. You are damned lucky the boss doesn't let us fuck each other, or you would be on your belly when I get back." Leen growled, but smiled when she heard Jessie's eager cry of surprise.

"KATA!" They heard some oh's and ahhs, which was followed by, "Oh yeah, you gorilla, give me a piece of that!"

* * *

"How is she?" Leen asked as she came into the room, and pulled up the screens that focused entirely on Aya. She had access through her interface, and Tandy allowed her to take a peek.

"Still in high hibernation mode. A new one she went into today. There are four different levels. High hibernation is something that shows she's either ready to come out into recovery, or go in deeper for self protection." Tandy looked at Leen, and smirked. "You know that only Aya and I can fuck you, right?" Leen blushed.

"She sort of mentioned that, I think. Are you sure? You know how angry she can get if I even think about other women banging me." Leen said and shivered a little as Tandy came in close and inhaled her scent.

"Computer, play Aya's words about sharing." Tandy watched as Leen listened in, and blushed. "She's my baby, but as much as I belong to her, she is willing to share her people with me." Tandy sighed a bit. "However, that is on the condition that it's willing." As she stepped back a bit, Leen lifted an eyebrow.

"Doctor, I've been given head for months on end, and haven't had a real good fuck since the boss said to button it up. You think I'm going to say no?" Tandy grinned.

"Then get that tight ass over here, Leen." Tandy said and started to strip her clothes off. "Danica, Jill, and Sol are getting a little bit sore trying to take my mind off of her, and it's your turn to assist me."

Leen soon ended up belly down, ass up, being dominated by someone with a lot of anatomical knowledge, and a ton of experience. Tandy was on a different level then what she had ever experienced before, and could only ever feel it here in the lab, among Aya's chosen ones. While Tandy fucked her relentlessly, Leen got off on not just the sensations, but also feeling Aya close by. For some reason, she could feel Aya's awareness on her now, even while she was in hibernation.

While the doctor fucked the hell out of Leen before she cleaned her up for surgery, Aya stayed in high hibernation, a low powered version of her construct, and began to adapt.

It took a while to learn how to speak, orient, and remap her brain. Once the micros had remapped her brain, and relaid the neural net to interact more easily, she began a fifth generation of the micros, all the while having lively discussions with her other selves.

Each of her lobes became almost a separate entity within her own body. They directed the micros on how to construct miniature interfaces inside the implants that now rode on top of her newly formed lobes.

Nets were written, laid, rewritten, optimized, and interconnected so intricately, there was scarcely a cubic centimeter of space within her brain that did not have some filament running through it.

While that was a small volume, in the four inter-connected minds, that cubic centimeter of missed space was a missed opportunity. There were hundreds of pockets of missed opportunities all throughout her lobes, they began to plan interactively to utilize them.

It might seem to be strange, to cooperate with yourself, but her brain now had access to three other versions of herself, and all that it offered.

Finally, the four came to the same conclusion.

"This body is too small. To remain humanoid, this body should grow larger, and offer more space for cranial optimization, and implantation." Aya said.

"Creativity is your sphere of influence." The original awareness said. She looked over at the third member.

"I am aware of our requirements. I will handle optimization, implementation, and adaptations." She said. They looked at the fourth.

"I understand. I'll handle developments, enhancements, and upgrades." She pursed her lips. "You'll handle all our interactions, along with usage of our assets, including our body. Considering the workload, we really need the extra room for additional evolution, don't we?"

"True." All said at the same time, except for the one to offer the opinion. Aya, in charge of personal interactions, and assets grimaced a bit.

"However, that evolution was a little debilitating. We'll need to regroup, and properly recover, as well as grow our container." She smiled as she looked at the pieces of her personality, and all walked forward. They embraced each other, and smiled a small smile.

"You saw what the doctor did to Leen, didn't you?" Creativity said, and watched a pout appear on Asset Aya. "We can plan for an event in which you remind the doctor that she belongs to us. As of right now, we haven't claimed her due to being so busy."

"True." Optimization Aya said. "We'll need to improve the attachments for a proper ass warming party." The four grinned.

"I'll be sure to improve upon those attachments in the future." Upgrade Aya said with a wicked grin. "That ass will be more then warmed."