Chapter 267 Weaponizing Venus
I pushed out of the atmosphere, and then triangulated my destination, and started to stretch myself using Calishora's ability. The ability allowed her to move a point or object anywhere within her range of influence, which was about 100 feet cubed. This could also move me in this space, but I had to be able to fit in the area, so that gave me an idea.
Instead of using the cube, I tried a few other shapes, learning that the 100-foot cube was the maximum it could be. This meant that I could move 10,000 feet if I were to make myself fit in a 1-foot cube, which was pretty fast, but I needed to travel 237 million miles. That just meant I would have to become smaller and dense, but my weight didn't affect it.
So, now I was 1/50 of a foot tall, a quarter inch, and stretching myself half a million miles. Each 'step' took about five seconds, giving me just under twenty to ponder before I got to Venus. With the girls in my head now, I only had to do this twice before they subconsciously took over for me, leaving me to think about Anya's proposal.
If worse came to worse, it was my plan to put everyone's consciousness into the Memory Crystal and then escape. Anya had suggested that I not wait for the worst to happen and I just remove everyone from their human bodies and leave. Once I created a new home, I could remake all the humans, not as humans, but as a new species.
To do this without Earth, I was going to have to create living conditions that the new people could thrive on. The thing was that life has evolved all over the cosmos in strange ways that seem completely impossible, but the beings that gained sentience looked nothing like humans. In the end, I was just going to have to work with what I understood because knowing and understanding something were not the same.
Water. It was the building block that we needed to sustain life, but that would be provided as I constructed the new world around a star. I would only have to siphon hydrogen from the star and oxygen from the asteroids that I farmed. To do something like this, time was going to be a significant factor, and it might take hundreds of years before I could even make the place livable. I alone could speed up time just by slowing down my perception, but everyone else would have to live during those years to complete the structure. Sure, I would have an infinite amount of time with the girls, but would everyone really be okay working that entire time?
People were no longer going to die, but that wasn't the way humans were built. We reach certain points where our bodies start to degrade, and the connections between our cells weaken, slowing down our regeneration. What would happen to humans if that never happened?
That was a worry for later, but I knew that the first step was to survive and then worry about the future. I just had to make sure that the sun was safe, and then I could start to think about the new home.
I reached out with my senses and felt the sun around me as I got closer. It was a powerful force, and I could feel the light absorb into my skin as I approached Venus. I was getting close, and I knew it was now or never. I had to prove to these sisters and the planet that I was going to protect them and make sure that they survived.
I stopped just above Venus, looking down at the swirling atmosphere. The planet was clouded in dense dust that was filled with sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide, and I could feel the heat coming off of it. Because of these clouds, the planet was one of the hottest in our solar system and would never be around long enough to create any type of life before the sun swallowed it. So, I was going to turn it into a weapon.
The first step was getting to the surface of the planet, and I knew that the way down was to use my Calishoran power. I focused my attention on a single point on the planet and then stretched myself to the surface. Instantly, my body tried to light one fire, but my body reacted and became metallic, making me cool down dramatically. Then I was forced to create google to even see anything from all the wind and dust.
Once I was able to see, I looked around at the hellish surface of the planet and shook my head in awe. This power of mine was so unbelievable to take me to a place like this where no normal human could ever go, and now I was going to do something more unbelievable.
"Gaia, can you hear me?" I asked.
'Like we were sitting beside each other. It seems like it is time,' Gaia replied in my mind.
"Are you going to be okay here alone?" I asked, but I felt her smile.
"I will hardly be alone," Gaia said as a clone of myself split from my body using her voice. "I will have you with me, even if you will be asleep. We should begin the process now."
Since Gaia and Dawn had watched over Earth, we decided to try and weaponize Venus and Mercury. That was the plan, and now it was time to try and put that into action, but I was concerned with how it was going to work.
"One more time. If it is too much, pull back. This will not be the same as how you controlled Earth. You are going to have to make the core your body, then break the planet apart, and finally hold it together until I die at least twice. The thing is, you aren't taking in energy, you are trying to absorb part of the planet, and then you have to keep the core spinning and hot while all the pressure is crushing you," I explained, and Gaia nodded.
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