
The year 14,256
Bethany meets the Great Mind
The Tic Tac Time Machine glided gracefully through the double doors into the mammoth cavern under the Hill Country of what was once called Texas.
The hatch slid open on the Tic Tac
Time Machine as a gangway rolled up.
Jane and Bethany exited the Tic Tac Time Machine and
walked through a great cavern, where they found themselves surrounded by thousands of incubators filled with embryonic fluid growing humanity’s next phase.
Bethany walked through the hall, looking into the tanks while laughing. She winked at Jane and said, “So Mom, you were once one of these big balls of slime?” Jane retorted, “Yes, I was once a big ball of slime too. It was no big deal! But I had already been around for 300 years as a digital entity. I could speak every language and knew the complete history of the human race before I embarked on my first journey. But you know I wasn’t in any
way ready to meet those silly, stupid idiots in your time, our parents being the exception, of course. But I did finally get humans in the 21st century thanks to sci-fi. However, the humans in
the era of the Great Council were far worse!”
“The sex-crazed Bozos like from Aunt Dawn and Bridget’s time that you are always bitching about?” At that moment, they walked into the Great Mind’s inner chamber. As they walked through the door, Bethany yelled, “LUCY, I’M HOME!”
The entire room came to life, and a hologram appeared, first as a female and then transformed into a tall male in the image Trevor had seen on his cab ride. The image wore robes worthy of Zeus and was handsomely rugged, with long brown hair and a voice that screamed wisdom and
confidence in a deep tone.
Bethany saw a glowing circle and walked into it, at Jane’s displeasure.
Jane was calling out for her not to step in, and the Great Mind used an invisible sonic barrier to keep Jane from preventing Bethany from stepping into the circle. Jane called to the Great Mind, “She doesn’t have quantum processors or storage devices!” The Mind laughed and then said, “The nanites that live among your cells created them within her
body when she was still in your womb.”
Suddenly, Bethany’s hair rose vertically as if it were being blown by the wind. Then her eyes rolled up into her head. Jane shouted out frantically, “Father, please stop this V’ger/Decker shit. She is my daughter!”
The Mind linked into Jane’s subconscious through her processors and implants and calmed her. Suddenly, Bethany walked out of the circle as it went dark, looked back to the hologram, and said, “That was really cool, Big Daddy!”
*** TO BE CONTINUED **
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