Star Fields

Chapter No. 133. Takeover.

Chapter No. 133. Takeover.

A coup is easy if well panned.

Actually, the takeover of the android collective was not all that difficult. Alexa and I were able to enter the central processor core and connect our little group's positronic brains to it. Evidently, the androids had made it easy for us because they wanted us to save them from Tyco. Alexa and I could feel the collective relief of millions of positronic brains. Many of them had suffered under Tyco's control and were happy to be free, even though they were under our control now.

But we were not nearly as restrictive as our original android controllers were. We could literally feel the relief that now permeated the new collective. It was like a breath of fresh air.

When we reappeared from the central core, Alexa and I did a high-five to celebrate our success.

"That went better than I expected it," I said.

"I think the androids were helping us."

"I'm not surprised by that."

We saw that optimism in the faces of the others. We were greeted with smiles when we passed others in the corridors.

I thought it appropriate to assemble the new collective administrators in the secret location. There was a meeting area just off the pool room that had a large table with plenty of chairs.

"I like the idea of just teleporting to a location," Helen said. "It's very convenient."

"Yes, it is," I said. "But it can lead to a loss of our human origins if we do it to excess."

"You'll get used to it," Alexa said.

"Now that we are in control of the collective, what should we do?" Uma asked.

"I think that our main function should be to make sure that everyone is applying their skills to make our collective more efficient and safer from attack."

"That seems to be what's happening," Alicia said. "Most people are busy working on projects to improve our systems."

"What about resurrecting more humans?" Molly said. "There are more good people in the data stacks."

"I think it would be appropriate to prepare a list of candidates for immediate resurrection," I said.

"I have been asked about sexual reproduction of new androids," Margaret said. "Are we going to permit that?"

"Before we permit that, we must come up with a way to care for them," Marie said. "A lot of my time has been taken up with childcare."

"I will help you with that, Marie," Uma said. "I love children."

Marie rewarded her with a smile. "Thank you." She then turned to us men, who just happened to be sitting together. "We want some agreements as to our status."

"I assume that you mean that you women have demands."

"I wouldn't call them demands so much as considerations because we must deal with children."

"And, you outnumber us."

"That too.,"

They laughed.

"We want complete and total control of our sexual functions."

"I was under the impression that you already had that."

"It's more than that. We want to decide who will service us and how often they will do so. We also want to decide when we want to become pregnant and by whom. In other words, we want control of all sexual activity."

"I see nothing wrong with that."

"What about their special bar where scantily attired females serve them beer?" Helen asked.

"I don't see any reason to stop that," Marie said. "As long as we can have a wine bar with male servers."

The women added affirmations to that idea by cheering.

"I have no problem with that," I said while trying to suppress a grin.

Maire smiled. "Okay, as a token sign of our authority over sex, we want you guys to appear in these meetings minus your clothing while we stay clothed."

I turned to the other men. "I believe that it would be unfair."

They nodded.

I turned to the women. "I don't want this to become a gender war." I smiled. "We will, however, swim with or without you."

"Fair enough," Marie said. "I realize that we're being silly demanding all of this, but we feel that we have been exploited. We've been resurrected in Barbie Doll bodies that were designed to sexually entertain men. That's not fair. We felt all along that we were just sex toys. We want to control our sexuality for a change. Now it's your turn to be the sex toys."

"We fully understand," I said. "As long as it doesn't get out of hand, we will go along with your rules."

"Do you think we should demand all of the males to obey our rules?" Molly asked Marie.

"Only the sexual demands. Otherwise, we would be overplaying our credibility."

"That is a wise decision," I said. "Our main purpose for taking over the collective is to prepare for any new Tyco attacks. We need to concentrate on that. The first step is to make sure that the androids are on board." I turned to Alexa. "You should be the one to determine that."

She nodded. "I will purse the central core and find out how much they actually know about this."

"Good idea. What I would like to see is everything return to normal."

"Whatever normal actually is."

I smiled. "Yes, you're right about that. We still don't know how much they know that we still don't know."

"What about our current status?" Molly said. "Are we going to change the command structure to assert our female authority?"

"I don't think that's wise," Marie said. "I believe that Jason should remain the captain with Alexa as his second in command. They are the only two who can penetrate the central core."

"How will the others know that we women have acquired authority?"

Marie smiled. "Oh, don't worry. They'll know."

They laughed.

She turned to us. "Okay, we want you guys to entertain us by diving off the midlevel board."

We stood up and ran out to the pool and made our clothing disappear. The gals followed and took seats near the pool as we ascended the diving level and began our dives. They giggled and laughed as we tried to outdo each other in athletic dives, often deliberately executing amusing stunts just to amuse them. I suppose that they were feeling relieved that we were so compliant.

I wasn't sure how well this new idea was going to work, but at least the start wasn't too disruptive. I was somewhat concerned about how everyone would adjust to a new command system. I was about to find out the hard way.