Monday, July 8th, 1996.
"Your cat is fine." Evie shows her and Zoria the translocationer's dispy and Emoria is licking her fur as if nothing's happened. "See she's fine"
"DE-DIGITIZE THE CAT NOW!" Ashleigh loudly commands Evie as Evie presses buttons on the dispy.
"Give me a second Ashleigh, let me scan for a spot." Evie says as she searches with the translocationer to find a big enough spot.
The three of them don't hear "XS REBOOT COMPLETE. TAKE OFF TOWARDS A DREAM" coming from Alison's mouth in a computerized male voice.
"Aha! Found one there. She then points the translocationer and in a flurry of purple ones and zeroes, the orange house that was duplicated is de-digitized, everything in pce when they left, including the supplies for Zoria's first hormone injection.
Alison was the first to recover.
Alison points to the house that wasn't on the beach before.
"My name is Alison August, former designation Alison#XS-9876, Becks and I are going to want some answers!" Alison tells the three newcomers to this world.
"Sure, do you need help carrying her in?" Zoria asks
"Nope, I got it, Let's go.”
All of them enter the house where Emoria is still licking her fur unaware of events around her.
"For a smart cat, sometimes you have a single brain cell" Ashleigh says while picking her up. Ashleigh continues, addressing Alison "Hey, Humagear, what's the year?”
"First of all, I'm not a humagear, whatever a humagear is. I'm a humanatron. Secondly today's date is Monday, July 8th, 1996." Alison replies in a very annoyed voice
"1996? I can deal with 1996." Ashleigh says, then continues "Hold that thought, Zoria sit back down on the couch”
Ashleigh picks up the second alcohol wipe, rubs Zoria's thigh, let a little bit of the estradiol out of the needle to fill it all the way up to the end.
"Are you ready for this Zoria?" Ashleigh asks
"Do it before I change my mind."
"I'm going to do a count okay."
"Affirmative"
"3"
"2"
“1"
Ashleigh injects Zoria with her first injection. prepared in 1752, injected in 1996, in two alternate Earths
An idea comes to Ashleigh
"Evie can you connect my technology to their internet, or whatever they call it.
Evie snaps her fingers "Done, you can still connect to your internet”
"The interwebs. We call it the interwebs" Alison says still looking over Becks who has been moved to the sofa right as they came in the house.
"Of course you do" Ashleigh says
"What's so funny about that"
"Oh, you wouldn't know, you had to be there.
As Ashleigh's devices connect to the interwebs, the time on her devices update.
8:17pm Monday, July 8th, 1996
"Oh, I made it so you devices won't have a hissy fit" Evie says
"I wasn't wondering about that, but thank you all the same" Ashleigh replies
"Stores should be open, right?" Ashleigh asks as Becks begins to wake up.
"The stores are open until 10 or 11." Alison replies then continues "May I inquire as to why?"
"Not to sound like a cliche, but I need a newspaper. preferably one with weekly tv listings”
Becks suddenly replies "We get the paper. We can let you borrow yesterday's issue."
"Why do you need a newspaper?" Zoria asks
"1. to know what universe we're dealing with until we can go to a library tomorrow.
2. Looking at the TV listings can help me get a sense of everything pop culturally.”
Evie snaps her fingers again. "Now you got cable tv"
"Okay, that works too. Ladies, Let's find out about the world" Ashleigh says to the women in the room.
"Becks, I think we need to stay and help them acclimate. They may be human, but I can't abandon three sisters."
"I agree. Least we can do”
Evie snaps her fingers again. "Now you got cable tv"
"Okay, that works too. Ladies, Let's find out about the world" Ashleigh says to the women in the room.
"Becks, I think we need to stay and help them acclimate. They may be human, but I can't abandon three sisters."
"I agree. Least we can do”
It was at that point where Zoria came down with the giggles.
"Well, Zoria is going to be out for a while. Morning?" Ashleigh asks Evie
"Morning." Evie replies
Alison and Becks return home promising to return the next morning.
It was at that point where Zoria came down with the giggles.
"Well, Zoria is going to be out for a while. Morning?" Ashleigh asks Evie
"Morning." Evie replies
Alison and Becks return home promising to return the next morning.
Tuesday, July 9th, 1996.
The first thing Ashleigh noticed.
Come On Eileen did not py. Another song did.
Pink Pony Club begins to py.
It confirms one thing. One thing that ruins Ashleigh's feminization pn for Evie and Zoria.
No more unlimited estrogen.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
"That's a different piece of music, isn't it" Zoria asks
"Yes it is" Ashleigh says
"The reset is gone?"
"Yes it is"
"No more estrogen"
"Maybe, maybe not. We need to learn what this world is and to do that, we're going out to eat first. There is still fast food in this world we can go there”
"Never thought I would say this to her. EVIE WAKE UP!"
Evie immediately and groggily wakes up. "Uh, what's going on."
"One, the house did not reset. Two, we're heading out to eat, Three, we're going to find out about this world to see if we can obtain estrogen, progesterone and injection supplies”
"I don't think the two of you have seen the garage" Ashleigh says then she continues
"So when I and the house was taken, Annie took her Subaru. However there is a second car in the garagemand Evie, I need your help to make it run again.
Ladies. This is my dad's 1970 egg-colored Ford Torino.”
"Annie says it was nuts that I still have this car, but it was my first car when I was a teen. After it died about twenty years ago, I could never let it go.
So gd I didn't."
Evie wiggles her fingers and whistles and the car was good as new and then some as it has a 2010s-era interior now.
"Ta-da! I am the reality warping queen! Oooh I like that, 'queen'"
"OMG, you dont need to fold in the seat to get in the backseat anymore. Nice stereo"
"Your new keys, dy." Evie hands her the new modernized car keys.
"Oh, that's amazing. Ashleigh replies.
"Okay. Let's go girls”
As Ashleigh drives into the city, she notices something odd. It's 1996, but it looks like the mid-2010s. She thinks nothing of it. She's focusing on the drive.
It's when they entered the McDonalds that she's weirded out. 90's exterior and interior aesthetics
It looks like any other McDonalds from the mid 90s. Except there is one difference.
Self-serve touch screen kiosks. Decades too early.
This breaks Ashleigh's mind. Out of everything she's experienced in the st three days. This is what breaks her.
Ashleigh is not going to let it get to her.
"I only realized something, my cards wouldn't work here."
"Oh, I fixed that when we got here, go ahead" Evie says to Ashleigh
"Hmmm. Huh, Even this universe didn't escape the Arch Deluxe." Ashleigh says to herself. Ashleigh just gets a cheeseburger and 9 piece mcnuggets with free water.
Evie and Zoria both order the same thing. 2 cheeseburgers and free water.
As they sit to eat, they noticed a fairly even mix of humans and humanatrons enjoying a meal. Ashleigh noticed a unsettling yet calming feeling during the drive.
"This is a very peaceful world. I wonder what happened.
The three of them exit the restaurant and walk directly to the library next door.
Evie takes initiative and asks Cora, a 50 something year old librarian at the desk "Is there any information about how the humanatrons came to be here?
"What, did you come from another world or something?"
“Yes."
Cora nervously points them to the library's resource room with access to digitized newspaper archives. Cora tells them to look at the archives for September 1985.
"September 9th, 1985 was the start of a bloodless invasion, or rather what was thought as one" reads an account from 1988.
Ashleigh continues reading.
"To hear it from the humanatrons themselves, They weren't not built to repce humanity, they just survived a pandemic that wiped the humans out in 1970.
"pfft, wonder if they caused it" Ashleigh says to herself.
Alison and Becks joined the three and Ashleigh has a question for Alison
"So I have a question, Are you an AI as in an art stealing, word and image regurgitator?"
"Hey, she is a living, breathing lifeform." Becks says to Ashleigh
"Is she? Is this the cause for this so-called better world?"
"No. We were only built to be assistants to the non-creative fields. None of us were built for creativity. Even helping a creative out will cause us to shut down. I was built to be a barber's assistant." Alison replies
"So these representatives, a decade ago, they didn't just steal from your worlds' human governments"
"You have to understand the worlds have merged, they wanted to make sure those ws from the te humans made it in. They stepped down soon after." Alison says
"Oh, joy, AIs with a conscience.”
"I am just as sentient as you. I understand your hesitation. I downloaded everything from your friends translocation device"
"Wait, how? How?" Evie excims.
"Ashleigh you come from a universe where the creators of so-called ai are greedy assholes who are purposely ending your world." Alison says
Alison continues "The humans of my old world were creatives and scientists, capitalism never took hold there. They were able to unch a human into space in 1923. We were built for a singur purpose. To help humanity, never to hinder, never to steal."
"LLMs are nothing like me or the humanatrons.”
"Then how did you get your knowledge and intelligence." Ashleigh asks
"Just like humanity. A lifetime of learning. A lifetime of living. I may have came out of the factory looking like this, but I didn't even know anything. All I knew was to hand over a comb or barbicide solution.
Then the humans died. They all died. but we survived by being artificial lifeforms who can't get sick. So we kept things going to honor them, but we started to go out, we started to live. we started to grow more knowledgable. Just like humans and their brains made of meat.
The humans of my world never really knew war or conflict. They cared about their fellow humans. the ws put in was what they had. Trans rights, immigrant rights, body positivity, disability rights, etc. Everything your world struggles with Ashleigh.
My original human friends figured all that out more than a century ago so we honor them. We never go into art. We may py video games, we may read books or watch movies, but we can never know how to write them, program them or film or produce any art.
In fact. I can show you. Ask me to create something" Alison finishes.
"okay, write me an episode of a tv show that contains a cartoon pig."
Alison has a piece of paper and a pencil. She just sits there. and sits there. she sits there for a good half hour. and she shuts down from overheating.
"Oh wow, she was telling the truth"
"XS REBOOT COMPLETE TAKE OFF TOWARDS A DREAM"
"not beating the humagear allegations" Ashleigh says to herself.
"You really can't hallucinate a thing, can you" Ashleigh says
"Nope" Alison replies
"I still can't trust you, you know."
"I know" Alison replies
I do have to admit that it comforts me knowing that the better world came from humans and not humanatrons. So the big question is how did peace prevail?"
"No one has been able to figure that out yet as no one died during the fighting and tension between the two worlds merging." Evie says
"To show that I'm a woman of my word, I am returning the knowledge to the translocationer and forgetting it completely"
Ashleigh gives a very skeptical look.
"Evie can you make sure that information is gone?"
"No problem.
"Without your translocationer."
“Okay"
Evie makes a telepathic contact to Alison and does a complete and thorough look. It's all clean of the knowledge of not just Ashleigh's universe but everything about the charmravenians, Zoria's world, and anything from outside the merged worlds
"All clean, seriously, completely clean of the info.”
"Huh, anti-LLM AIs. I'm still not buying it."
"I knew a better world would come with a catch."
Evie reads "All medication can be get for free, unlimited amounts, no questions asked.
"Okay we'll get the estrogen, progesterone and the rest of the supplies and we're out of here."
Zoria and Evie reluctantly agree.
"That was the worst thing I've seen an AI do. Steal the achievements of a dead human race" Ashleigh tells to Alison and Beck's face.
"The nearest drug store is a block away, it should give you everything you need" Becks says.
"Thank you.” “Not you." Ashleigh says to Becks and Alison.
"Ashleigh, I read into Alison's mind when I was in there. She was telling mostly the truth. They were a civilization that embraced and focus on science and the arts." Evie says
"What was the lie?"
"The humanatrons did cause a pandemic that killed off humanity on their world.“
"We get the estrogen, progesterone and other supplies. Evie, when we get them, warp them to make sure they 100% match mine's at the house."
"Duly noted. I have already purified our bodies from the lunch we had"
"Thank you, let's get out of here”
Ashleigh drives back to the house after the drug store gives them a two year supply for the three of them, no questions asked, parks the Torino in the garage. She grabs her cat carrier backpack and puts Emoria in. Evie purifying her from this world as well as the house and everything in it.
The three and Emoria exit the house. Evie redigitizes it back into the translocationer. and Evie opens a portal.
"Damn, I really wanted to like this world."
"How did you know it as a parallel world?" Evie asks
"Standard rule in all ISOT situations" Ashleigh answers.
The three of them and one cat in a carrier jump into the portal.
