Kira had been sleeping in her pod for a week, she had written and added a new program that allowed her alter her brain pattern signals so that she could alter the brain waves stimulating her nightmares and project a movie that would play dimly, it was like inserting data bits and bytes that made up the images in a cord into a computer but instead the data was entered into the neurons interconnected by more than a hundred trillion synapses ,so instead of the brain to transmit the nightmares in her sleep, it blocks them out and transmits the data that was inserted into it.
Kira had been sleeping in her pod for a week now and She was beginning to adapt to her new mode of sleep.
She was still searching for answers to her nightmares as She never really got to hear Leah's hypothesis .
She checked up on Leah everyday and took a ride to see her once on Wednesday, leah didn't seem to be doing so well, the house was in a mess but she helped clean up.
She really wanted to know why Leah had done all those things she had done, She knew Leah well enough.
Leah was one of the Anna's inventors, she had wriiten the program for Anna, long before Earth's invasion .After the invasion, She went into Psychology, helping young individuals with personality quirks when She couldn't help herself out of her life of bitterness.
Kira sat in her couch staring at her hologramic laptop but she was lost in thought, She was thinking about Leah.
If Leah wanted to hack into the system, she would and no one would ever find a trace not even Zen with all the information in his head.
It was as Leah was testing out something. She was trying out something, some kind of experiment.
She didn't have any proof but her instinct told her She was right.
At the party last week, Leah must have reacted how Zen would have expected but Kira knew Leah to be a silent mourner.
She wasn't the kind of person to create a scene.
Kira sighed, she was saying gibberish.
She didn't have any proof of what was She was saying and maybe because She felt She knew Leah too well, She thought some things were not just in place.
* * *
" Leah can i tell you something?".
Sia , a seventeen year old whom Leah had been having sessions with.
Leah admired this girl, She always came in person as Leah refused to have sessions with a surrogate or a represent robot.
She wanted her client to talk to her.
Sia was tall, she had deep aqua blue eyes, she had brown- coloured hair which could sometimes be thought of as golden in colour, She had a shy look, the look that made you think of her as a harmless little child, she had long lashes and well laid brows, she was one of the few teenagers that didn't want a surrogate.
To most teenagers, A surrogate was an escape from the real world, it was a relief to school and work and any activity, It was a excuse for indiscipline and irresponsibility.
Sia had destroyed her surrogate when she was little.
Her parents didn't have any idea of how She had done so.
They met the surrogate melted and smashed one morning.
They knew there was no way anyone could have entered and done it and there was no means by which Sia could have done it, there was no laser or a blow-torch.
Zen got information that a surrogate had been destroyed especially all the property elements.
He sent an investigation panel, He felt suspicious.
His suspicions grew more when Sia's parents told the panel that Sia was responsible for the destruction.
He felt they were lying.
Zen arrested them and sent them to jail.
On mars.
Sia never heard from them.
She was only six when everything happened.
It was a relation who took her and trained her.
Sia hated herself. She felt she was the reason why her parents were dead.
If she had not destroyed the surrogate, all that would not have happened.
She felt even worse because she remembered it all.
She remembered that night when she had told the surrogate, Nani3i3 to read her a book and sing her lullabies.
Nani3i3 refused, she had to recharge in her recharge tube.
Sia would have none of it.
Only Sia knew what happened next.
She was there when her Mum and Dad were cuffed and put into the flying Airdrone .
She was there when they were set into the spaceship that would send them to Mars.
Zen had totured them, He said they were not telling the truth .
He said the worst torture was to see the agony of their little six year old and still not be able to do anything.
" What'd you wanna tell me?".
" It's something personal".
" A secret".
She nodded.
"Does it explain your melted shirt"
That came as a shock to Sia .
She knew Leah was suspicious.
What she did not know was that Leah was out to get the truth and anything she might tell her may not come as a shock to her.
" Leah".
" I'm all ears".
" I have powers". It was a whisper.
" What kind".
" Fire powers".
" I can eject larva from my hands".
" For how long".
" I guess i was born with it".
" How do you feel about your powers".
" I hate it".
" Why ?".
" Having this power has cost me a lot, Leah".
" Really".
"How".
" Leah you should know better".
" Dad and Mum are gone because of my powers".
"My powers have only bad effects".
" It has solved no problem".
She broke down in tears.
Leah let her pour out her heart.
She knew She had gone through a lot and She had no one to talk to.
To share her problems with.
She didn't want to say something like " its not your fault" .
She wanted her to pour out her heart
"It destroys".
" It destroys everything".
" It ruins everything".
" I wish i had no powers".
" I wish i was a normal kid".
" I wish my parents didn't have to die on Mars".
" It's all my fault".
" I caused it".
She was sobbing uncontrollably now.
Leah knew at this point, She could come in.
" Sia". She started as She drew Sia to her and allowed her hold her.
" Powers are hard to control".
" You were only six".
" You had no idea what you were doing".
" You had no one to teach or guide you".
" Sia, its not your fault".
" You have lived with this pain for so long".
" You have to let it go".
Leah was beginning to think she was addressing herself.
She felt what She was saying was something someone like Kira would say to her .
" Your parents are not dead, Sia".
Sia sat up.
" How do you know?".
" It's eleven years they've been gone".
" They have been on Hell planet".
" They would not be alive".
" Who told you such nonsense?". Leah asked.
" Zene".She was drying her tears.
" Zene's a snake" ,Leah told her.
" You can never trust him".
" But why would he lie".
" I have no idea".
" Zene is very smart".
" But i know for a fact that your parents are alive".
" How do you know?".
" I want to tell yoi but i can't for now".
" You just have to believe me".
She nodded.
"You knew all along right?".
" How did you figure out".
" The melted surrogate made me suspicious".
" But when i saw the melted shirt".
" My suspicions were confirmed".
" I'm a shrink, remember".
" Oh yeah", She had started to smile
" You are my biggest strength, Leah".
She hugged her tight.
" You won't be saying that if you knew me too well" She thought to herself.
" Can i sleep her tonight?".
" You're always welcome to".
Sia was already asleep, leah was on her computer.
She was searching for information.
She had an observation.
There was a hidden pattern.
Everything was somehow connected.
Kira's consistent nightmares had something ti do with Sia developing and having superpowers .
There was something she was missing and it could be the breaking point in her work.
She was tempted to go into the wall but She couldn't risk it.
Sia was passing the night there.
She went to her room.
She took one of the " Mumu Dart" .
She had made them herself.
They interfered with the information received by the second cranial optic nerve and carries sensory nerves impulses from more than one million ganglion cells towards the visual centres in the brain.
So with the " Mumu dart" , She could control what she wanted people to say and see.
She had once had to use the dart.
She knew Kira would be suspicious.
She was not scared anymore.
Revolution must have to come anyway.
Kira was keen in her plans.
She now understood.
It was God.
She still did not know what was missing.
Kira , something in her felt that the missing piece in her plan was what Kira held.
Suddenly something clicked, it came so fast that in her excitement, She forgot what she had discovered .
She tried to remember what it was but it was no use, the only option she had was to immediately carry out a " string the sensory" , it was a medical process to ignite the memory of the brain , by activating the sensory nerve of the brain by taking off the cranial bone and putting in some depth electrode, then stimulate the right neurons through which the data had passed through.
Special brain reader could be able to read the data that has passed through that neuron.
To Leah, it was a long process.
" Handy "
Handy came.
" Shut down, I'm going to bed".
" Order being processed".
Handy said.
Leah may not have been listening.
She was lost in thought.
It took Leah a week to remember the hypothesis she came up with that night.
Sia had been staying over, so she could not do much.
She knew sooner or later, she would have to bring Sia into her plan.
She had always known that the most difficult part of her plan was to gather her army.
Now that She had discovered the missing piece she had been searching for ten years.
She was ready but first She had to meet with Kira and find out how true her hypothesis was else She had to keep on waiting.
" Leah !" It was Sia.
" Mnnnm" She murmured.
" Going somewhere" .
" Yeah to see Kira".
" Be back before you know it".
" Can't i come with you".
" No Sia , you have to stay here".
" Okay" Sia wasn't convinced.
Sia had her doubts about Leah.
She felt Leah knew too much.
Leah had a past that She didn't want to look back to.
She was kind of curious now that Leah was leaving.
Leah knew a lot more about her parents and She was ready to do anything.
" Aniasayo" She said to leave.
The Airdrone Leah had summoned was at the verandah.
She stepped out.
A slide board extended from the Airdrone.
Leah stepped onto the board and it took her into the craft, looked her into a seat.
" Your order, maam" A small service robot passed.
" Just get me a hamburger and drinks".
" Service order in a minute".
" She didn't really care about the order, she was very nervous about what she wanted to ask Kira.
Kira was not home.
Handy told her.
" Can you locate where She is"
" Accessing location".
Handy was processing information and the result was being projected on the wall .
" Location figured" .
Handy announced.
" She's at sector 2124, Johannesburg".
Leah wasn't shocked but she was suprised.
What the hell was Kira doing at Johannesburg.
" How long".
" Yesterday night".
Leah didn't want to go to south Africa but now her suspicions had grown even more.
She decided to go back home.
No, Sia was at home.
She decided to order a speed Airship.
She transported her pad.
she felt as if something was odd at home but she was distraught.
" Send a speed Airship".
" Request being processed".
" Speed Ship located in sector, 21".
" Contacting Ship control".
" Sending ship to your location".
In a few minutes , the ship was landing on the ground floor ,it wasn't gigantic ,it was the normal size of a car meant for few number of people.
It was like a Ferrari in the air, it was sleek, Aerodynamic and could travel at the speed of 150 miles an hour .
It was very fast but there was zero turbulence so no imbalance or rocky movememt when in the plane.
" Destination"
" Drive till i can clear every shit off my my head".
" service order" A service robot asked.
" Drinks, lots".
It was about 12pm.
Sia was worried ,Leah ought to have been back, she couldn't quite figure out what was wrong .She decided to find her location.
In as much as She was a bit furious with Leah and also a bit jitty, she still wanted to see her.
Leah was the nicest person she knew after which was ;Dave.
Dave was the other person who knew about her secret, She knew his too.
She sat at her computer .
She tried to locate Leah's location.
She noticed she was in an Aircraft and it was still moving.
She tried to contact Leah but it was as of Leah had slept off.
She wanted to hack into the aircraft's system and re-navigate it to home.
She was scared that Zen would notice and become suspicious.
If She destroyed the computer ,She wanted to use .
Zen would have its number and last location.
She decided to hack into it anyways.
She was anle to gain access into the aircraft control.
" Have to return Leah home".
She was able to gain control of the craft from the AI ,She was also able to re- navigate the air-craft but not without a little turbulence on the craft enough to wake Leah.
" What the heck is going on".
" Don't worry, Leah".
" I gat ya".
Leah was confused, that was Sia's voice through the speaker.
She tried to get the plane's previous locations.
Gosh the Plane had gone round the Earth, this was crazy, she had slept off.
Thanks to Sia ,she was returning safely.
" Thanks".
"Anytime ,Leah".
" You shouldn't drink too much, you know".
Sia had access to the Aircraft's camera .
She could see the mess of bottles.
The service robot hadn't done its job.
Leah was embarrassed.
The Aircraft finally landed in the verandah.
Out of the extension came out a distraught Leah.
" Zen's gonna find out someone's anke to hack into the Aircraft tight system".
" Already took care of that" Sia came out of the porch.
A shap- shipting Aircraft just like the one Leah came out from emerged with her.
" What's that" Leah put on a puzzled look.
" It's an exact copy of that aircraft".
She pointed to the one Leah came out of .
" How?", What she meant to ask was how she was able to put the Aircraft together in such a short time.
" Handy helped me".
" All i had to was get a scan of the system and rebuild into another one".
Leah hugged her tightly.
" Thanks a lot".
" Handy helped me fix all the parts".
" At your service, Maam".
" Thank you ,Handy".
" You are welcome".
" But the machine is not shape-shifting".
" I know that, Leah".
"The feature was just to get it through".
"The feature destroys automatically and never be accessed".
" Damn, you are good".
" I know right, I'm the best".
She hugged her .
" You need to rest ,Leah".
" You're stressed".
" You found out".
" We'll talk tomorrow".
" I know you're tired".
Leah wanted to say something but she staggered.
Sia and Handy caught her.
She was dozing out.
She couldn't see well.
She was dizzy.
She felt herself been laid.
She heard a voice say "Gosh, she needs to rest".
She wanted to say she was okay.
Instead She felt her eyes struggling to keep wake.
She soon saw black.
Kira was in Johannesburg.
She wanted to know , She was curious.
What the hell is going on .
She was set to find out .
She didn't tell anyone about her mission.
Whatever happened ,She was ready.
She stopped and looked around.
It was eighteen years since She last entered this place.
She stopped .
She heard voices.
It was loud and vivid.
" Don't let her give birth to that bastard".
" He's not gonna have a Heart".
" The bastard in her is a threat".
It was Zen's voice .
The Invasion was two- year old then.
Some experiments had been carried out .
Her Husband, Sal had been ripped of his heart and fixed with an electronic one.
He was like the test bait .
Zen wanted to be sure there would be no risks.
He also had his brain replaced.
It was like being an Human AI.
It was a risk.
They forgot about Genetics mutation.
They forgot about the hormones .
Hormones still secreted testosterone.
Kiara and Sal still had sex.
Somehow Kiara got pregnant.
Zen was doubtful.
Scanning the Child's Genetic code.
It was noticed that chemicals and metals filled up his DNA molecule.
As it was a foetus then , the heart structure could not be determined.
However particle metals and fluid holding metals by a strong cohensive force was seen forming where a heart should have been .
It was like a reaction taking place in his heart region.
Metals bombarding metals, forming bonds.
Zen's found that that could be the first natural born Human and could pose a challenge to him.
He had Sal killed.
He didn't want him to produce more kids elsewhere. places and People He could not trace.
He came in time to stop the baby from being born.
He came in when the baby was almost out.
He had been talking to a doctor outside but when He heard that the baby was almost out .
He went in, filled the amniotic sac with sulphuric acid .
The baby was dead within a few seconds.
Zen concentrated on the baby to make sure it was dead so kiara was able to escape with the help of the doctor.
It was after that she became Kira.
She underwent a change of Identity.
Zen assumed She died.
She lived a nightmare for years.
She looked at the hospital.
In it lied all her answers.
She walked in nervous on what she would discover.