The most important question that Ale could think at the mont was just that, what the deal was with this woman? She wasn't particularly normal, granted, most people ignored to so degree Alexa's shenanigans, but even then that couldn't explain why this woman acted as such.
Whenever soone ca close to even pointing out Alexa's weird behavior, they all ca up with excuses on their own. Ale had been wondering what the deal was with that. It helped them, both her personally and Alexa of course, so she didn't mind it that much.
But as of this, she needed to find as much information as possible. So she really was looking forward to this answer; this woman seed to be more research-focused from what she had been able to see. So perhaps she would answer this?
"Care you elaborate on the question?" Vivian Kellet instead asked that.
Ale couldn't help but sigh at the question, was it that hard?
"You seem to be oodly focused on research, compared to Alexanders dubious motivation and Miriam Eversoul more humanitarian approach, you are more of a mistery in this." Ale elaborated as asked, "So I am asking you what is your deal in this. What do you seek to acquire from this."
"I am rely assisting Miriam," Vivian Kellet answered after thinking for a few extra seconds, "This also seems to advance my own research, so I don't mind working with you on this."
Advance her research? Was she using the data she got from Alexa's lab results on sothing? Ale had seen the data too, and there wasn't anything that interesting there. It was the average standard data from a five-year-old girl.
The interesting and outside-the-norm data had co from Ale's own lab results, if she was to guess. Since she was the one with the most extensive set of bodily modifications, but at best, they had gotten a scan of her current setup.
Nothing too valuable or useful for them, unless they could interact with the AI Cores as well as Ale could, but she sohow doubted that was possible. Ale's own ability to do so ca from Alexa after all; without the frawork set up by Alexa's Consciousness Stream, that would be impossible to achieve.
"What do you an?" Ale decided to ask instead of continuing thinking about it, "How does this further down your research?"
"My research seeks to fix so issues, personal issues." Vivian Kellet answered, "To elaborate further, since you don't seem to react in the sa way other people to that statent. I wish to fix an issue with my personality."
Hah?
"To be precise, I wish to fix an issue that impedes from socializing in a normal and common way with the people around ." Vivian Kellet continued saying weird bullshit, "I am too perfect for this world."
"I beg your pardon?" Ale couldn't help but utter the question, "You are... perfect? Are you sure?"
Ale was aware that her standards to beauty were sowhat out of order, that couldn't be helped, not after being exposed to Alexa and Alexandra, how could one remain normal if you shared body with both the cutest and most beautiful people around?
"Yes," Vivian Kellet answered, "I have tested that several tis, people can't behave as normal with around, they stumble their words, give things they should not and in general they fold to my whims at the barest ntion."
... That wasn't normal.
"That is not a normal behavior, so my research is trying to assert why this happens and how to fix it." Vivian Kellet continued her speech, "I seek to find the way to create the perfect human body, be it to normalize my own body to normal or to fix whatever is causing this, perhaps even to create a vaccine for the people I work with."
... So she wanted the know-how of what Alexa's body was? Surely... Alexanders already had that right? Hadn't he shared it with Vivian Kellet?
"As soone once said, a healthy soul resides in a healthy body and a healthy mind." Vivian Kellet continued speaking unaware of Ale's internal monologue and questions, "I wish to use your own experiences with multiple minds within one body to create the perfect frawork for a healthy mind."
Sothing told Ale that what Ale and Alexa had wasn't healthy, from the normal human point of view anyway.
"So you are using as a test subject?" Ale asked as she thought about it more deeply, this woman wanted a healthy mind and her decision had been to pick up Alexa as a way to sample that? "I will not accept any complaint about it."
That would not work as she was expecting, no way it worked.
"That matters not," Vivian Kellet said back, "What I expect to get from this is experintal data, is it aningless to know if it will work or not beforehand, for the experint in itself is what I desire."
That... was not what she said before was it?
"So you think that whatever is causing that effect on others... Can be fixed or you believe that the answer to find a cure can be found within the data you got from ?" Ale asked confused, that was quite the logical leap wasn't it?
"Yes," Vivian Kellet said answering, "While you were unconscious besides checking your vitals and body make we also checked your digital footprint to see how you behave socially and what kind of past you had."
Ale hadn't seen evidence of that, granted she hadn't checked if they peeked at her past or not, since that wasn't that much of an issue... Or so she had thought, who would even think of checking that.
"Miriam wasn't worried about that, and was more focused on your body." Vivian Kellet pointed and brought out a tablet with a blue screen, showing the contents, "Evidence of people behaving and making logical leaps around you."
Video clips of people misinterpreting the evidence around Alexa, Ale, and Alexandra. Evidence of how people took the most convenient answer to Alexa.
"... So you people did notice it after all," Ale said nodding, she had noticed it. The people here? Vivian Kellet and Miriam Eversoul hadn't jumped to the wrong conclusions; instead, they had analyzed the data and sought the correct answer.
The sa could be said about Alexanders and Sapphire too actually, the blonde man had accurately found out about Alexa's escape on the first day, him alone, not anyone else.
Ale wasn't sure if soone else could do the sa with the sa data; no one else had said anything about Alexa's escape after all, and even the smartest people she knew had co to the wrong conclusions.
Vulcanus assud that all was because of Alexander's machinations. [Elder] thought it was because of planning or sothing like that, even [Eleanore], who had most of the data of the people around Alexa, also ca to the wrong conclusion after all.
"Unlike the people around you," Vivian Kellet confird Ale's suspicion, "Most of the people near Alexa had enough data to co to the right conclusion, but from our data mining, no one did. One such example is Gabriel Light."
Vivian Kellet then clicked on the image and pulled out the data that [The Fallen Angel] had acquired during his travel to the facility that Ale had explored.
"He got the full curated data," Vivian Kellet said as she showed the data once again, this ti Ale took her ti to browse it slowly, the data... was not what Ale rembered leaving behind, or seeing before.
This ti there was more data here, fake experints about stuff that they had allegedly done to Alexa, Ale grimaced at the video files and the experintal logs.
The data was mostly correct-looking.
"Is this real?" Ale couldn't help but ask.
The data was fake of course, at least from the point of view that this was Alexa, it was not. They had not such a past... or so Ale thought anyway. All she knew about Alexa was that they ca to be when P4 created the body that Alexa inhabits, when they moved their main AI Core and kickstarted the brain...
That was the point in which Alexa ca to be... at least from Ale's point of view. It was at that point that they had beco aware of the Consciousness Stream at least, aning that was their first mont of awareness.
They did evolve the personality over the couple hours after that event of course, moving away from the chanical attitude of P4 to Alexa's shenanigans.
But the point remained, Alexa had ca to be after that point, then a couple hours later had been the birth of Ale and Alexandra, one after the other. Or at least the body configurations that Ale and Alexandra ca to wear and use.
Their bodies had been made, the knowledge that different brain configuration interfaced differently with their body and the decisions to create dedicated Consciousness Stream Strands for each of those body configurations...
Perhaps it was a movent of self-defense and self-awareness, an attempt to prevent the fragntation from the body dysphoria?
Ale knew not.
"As real as we can see, but there is no actual way of knowing if the experint really happened." Vivian Kellet answered, "We know the data looks legit at the very least, but the experints themselves we have no way of knowing if they did happen in such a way or not."
"... So the data of those experints are real, but you don't know if the actual experint showed here happened?" Ale asked confused, "How does that work?"
"The results are legit," Vivian Kellet said, pointing at the results, "But the evidence could be curated for all we know, there is no proof of this data being related to this person here, nor do we have a way of knowing for sure that said person is you."
...
Ale knew it wasn't them of course, she had the full record of all the experints done to P4, they weren't better compared to this of course, but only from the point of view that these experints were done in a human and what they did to P4 was to a machine.
At least from a [Human] point of view.
"Tell then Ale Saitnsworths," Vivian Kellet said turning to Ale, "Are the experints true?"
"... I don't know." Ale answered truthfully, "The data seems to indicate they are true, at the very least the experints done in this data are similar enough to what the video files show."
Of that Ale was sure, aning that the experints had been done, had they been done to Alexa? Probably not, then did Alexanders truly have a sister at so point?
That would an his actual sister had been experinted... And no normal human could survive that type of experintation, Ale didn't think they could, and should they survive... What remained would not be human...
Could it be that the actual [Core] used in Alexa's creation... Nay, the [Core] used to create P4... Had that co from Alexanders actual sister?
Ale hoped not, because that would an that Alexa truly was Alexanders twin sister. And that was sothing Ale could not, or wasn't sure what to think about.
"Gabriel Light ca to an interesting theory from this data, or well. I assu he ca with an interesting theory anyway." Vivian Kellet said turning to Ale, "This data claims that the true nature of your Core is that of a Doppelganger and not a Shapeshifter as you claim to be."
Ale had seen that too yes, that was a more interesting answer to be sure, the description that Ale had found about them could indeed explain so of the things that Alexa did, or well, they [Core] did.
The way they acquired the data to their change of form could indeed be explained with the peculiarities found within the myth of Doppelgangers, like how it didn't matter the actual genetic data acquired from the samples, they transford into the actual form with clothes and whatnot.
There was no reason why they could imitate or create the clothing their samples wore after all, that was not within their genetic code, and yet Ale and Alexa could do such, and no one had thought to question that.
"So I am not an actual Shapeshifter but soone who wields the power of a shapeshifter." Ale said nodding, it was... a better explanation for sure, it was still wrong, that didn't explain how Ale could transform part of her body into chanical devices, or how she could interface with technology. "That does explain a few things for sure."
"The other aspects of your powerset can be explained as side effects from the human experintation that you allegedly suffered." Vivian Kellet said pulling out data files and images of the woman who looked like them, yet was different, it wasn't quite how Alexandra looked, nor how Ale looked.
And more than certainly, they did not look like how Alexa did.
But that woman did have different type of weapons stuck and grafted onto her body, a few images had a type of weapon similar to the [Arm-mant], another image had a gun directly grafted into her shoulders, it wasn't quite how Ale created her rifle into her arm, but it was similar enough.
"Yeah..." Ale said nodding as she grimaced from a few of the images, she was not going to pull out a spinning chainsaw from her arms, no matter how aweso and cool it looked, that looked like it hurt as hell.
Though she knew that she was able to turn out her pain nerves, but still... Actually... Could she do sothing like that with swords? That shouldn't hurt as much as what the image showed...
No, don't get distracted Ale! At the mont there are other stuff you need to discuss! The blueprints about chainsaws and swords coming out from within our body can be left for later!
"So, with that out of the way." Ale said coughing into her balled fist to distract Vivian Kellet from the stars that totally didn't show into her eyes when the image of the blonde woman with chainsaw coming from her arms was shown, "What is that you wish to get out of us, in a practical sense. Are you expecting sothing of us? Alexa is not the most... smart, so if you want actual data you will need to deal with . And I can't co out for long while I am dealing with this weird [Core Power] effect that lissandra Singh left on ."
That was important, whatever it was that weird effect, they would need to use the technology of the Saintsworths to counteract it, aning while it wasn't purged, she would have a hard ti limiting it.
So unless they could get Alexanders to purge the ambient mana from where Ale was...
"This is not a viable outco, to fully purge the mana from an area has many derits, more so in a research area." Vivian Kellet stated plainly, "To use you as a viable test subject we would need to get funding an a dedicated area where there are no risks or problems with purging the ambient mana, that would require too much effort to be fully viable."
So...
"aning you want nothing?" Ale asked flabergasted, "Nothing at all?"
"No," Vivian Kellet said shaking her head, "What I require can be acquired with casual conversations from ti to ti, also the footage acquired from your interactions be as your current form or Alexa is enough."
That... then what the heck was she doing here?
"Seeing you interact with Miriam is more than enough to achieve my desires," Vivian Kellet stated once again plainly, "I require nothing else, I am only entertaining you because Miriam requires additional ti to ambush Alexanders and because she wants to calm her own nerves, as the decisions she needs to take are important to her."
"What decisions are those?" Ale asked, "And why did she need extra ti to ambush Alexanders?"
"That is for her to share with you," Vivian Kellet answered as she shook her head in denial to Ale's question, "As for the ambush, like we said before. Never trust a Saintsworths, no matter what they say or what they promise you."
Yeah... they had said that several tis.
"Fine," Ale said sighing in defeat, this woman was weird, "If that is all, you can leave."
Ale dismissed the woman, and just as she stood up, Ale thought of sothing.
"Say... can I have a strand of hair?" Ale asked without thinking, "Or well, a sample of you to be precise, if my power is indeed not of a shapeshifter but of a Doppelganger I would need to test how little or how much I need, wouldn't I?"
Vivian Kellet's gaze was leveled at Ale, and Ale couldn't help but shudder, to be glared... or well, looked at with such cold eyes was sothing new to her after all.
"I refuse." The blue-haired woman stated, that was sothing Ale hadn't expected, or well, sothing she should have expected to be precise, normal people did react like that when asked sothing like this after all. "But I will see about getting samples for you at a later date, I would advise you against acquiring samples of or Miriam without our consent, as that could be seen as a breach of trust."
... Ale figured as much.
"Okay." Ale said nodding, "I just wanted to ask, you can send Miriam Eversoul if she is done with Alexanders."
And like that, the second talk ended, this one wasn't as long, or felt as long as the one she had with Alexanders, and yet, it left her more tired. At least only one more was left, and then Ale would need to make long plans...
How the hell was she supposed to get Alexa back to Columbus Ohio if she wasn't able to remain in the outside world for long periods of ti?
That was the question here.
User Comments
0 comments from readers