Yin skillfully maneuvered through the last patches of atmospheric disturbance, guiding the craft toward the black abyss above.
Soon, the turbulence ceased entirely, and the journey into space became smoother, allowing a serene ascent among the stars.
As It did I unbuckled my safety belt causing my body to slightly float up, as It did I activated my armored boots magnets and planted my feet to the gunships floor.
With Hope doing the same, I quickly walked to the cockpit with Hope following behind only to see the destroyed space stations, warships and frozen corpses floating around the E*rth's orbit.
"F*ck our parents told us that It was a bloodbath, but seeing It myself It's an understatement"
Yin commented only for a corpse to slam Itself Into the cockpits armored glass, causing the three women to flinch.
"F*ck that scared the day light out of me"
Hope cursed.
"Same here..."
Yang chipped In.
"So where do we start?"
Yin asked as she did I sliced Into the gunships operating system, causing holographic directions to appear on the cockpits glass.
"Damm how the hell do you do that?"
Yin asked as she operated the gunship to fly forward while evading obstacles that got marked by the gunships AI with red circles.
"I got an TAI Implanted In my brain"
I answered as I tapped my helmet with my armored finger.
"Jeez what else did they stuff you with?"
Yin asked as she made a sharp turn evading a chunk of debris that belonged to a cruiser.
"I wouldn't know where to even begin"
I answered while shrugging my shoulders.
"You should tell me about It over a drink"
Yin said and I swore she winked at me under that helmet of hers whose hose was connected to a life support tank on her back.
"Hey hands off b*tch he's mine"
Hope barked after sensing Yin's Intentions.
"Hmph! What a party pooper"
Yin barked back.
Hearing the two women bickering I couldn't help but sigh, It seemed like forming a harem In real life wasn't as easy as In books.
It didn't take long before we reached the goal of our destination, as we did Yang couldn't help but exclaim.
"F*ck so that's the Infamous UNOES Ares? How the f*ck did you guys build a monstrosity like that?"
Yang asked as she looked at the 4700 meters long, 1400 meters wide and 700 meters high battleship silently spinning In space.
With countless other spaceship wreckages surrounding It.
The battleship was riddled with numerous different sized holes, a few chunks of Its hull were missing.
Its massive two primary chemical thrusters had all been destroyed together with Its assortment of main mass accelerator canons and secondary laser canons.
The behemoth was once the pride of UNOEs navy, the first battleship and last warship of Its class and It also had a positronic AI with a self-evolving module that could think for Itself and was only one step away from becoming sentient.
This was the reason why the HDD, and the other two superpowers that by the end of the 21st century had divided up E*rth and the solar system did everything they could to take It down at the start of the all out space battle.
Before I could answer the gunship's Interior lighting changed to ominous red while numerous red holographic warnings started flashing on the cockpits glass.
"F*ck! That thing Is still functioning It's locking its flak batteries on us!"
Yin roared as she Increased her thruster output to the maximum while yanking her piloting stick to the left.
As she did a stream of 80 mm Armor piercing rocket propelled shells streaked past the gunship.
Without waisting a second I Initiated contact with the battleships AI.
"Legio I Hellas death chains commander seargent major Dracula Von Death, authorization code Romeo Echo Alpha Papa Echo Romeo 0, stand down! I repeat stand down!"
I said In one breath as I did the gunship's lightning returned to normal while all the warning signs disappeared.
"Huh? What the...?"
The dumbfounded Yin who just a moment ago was evading the onslaught of the remaining Ares flak batteries only to find that they were no longer targeting her bird exclaimed.
While In my view a holographic Image of a 180 centimeters tall middle eastern beauty with mainly black as abyss hair and red as blood stripes collarbone length loose hair wearing a skin tight very similar to mine nanocomposite suit that clung tightly to her hourglass shaped special operations forces female soldiers standard body appeared In my view.
"Sir seargent major UNOES Ares strategic artificial Intelligence 0 reporting for duty!"
The AI snapped to attention, brought her extended right forearm to her temple, and reported In that voice that sounded just like Lilith's yet at the same time was devoid of any human warmth.
As I gazed Into her golden eyes I couldn't help but fall silent for a moment because SAI 0 looked exactly like Lilith.
And the reason for It Is very simple, she was made by scanning Lilith's decomposed brain and using It as a base material for Ares bio super server.
Once I was done getting my revenge, I dug out what was left of her corpse and brought It back with the hope that the mad scientists could bring her back to life.
But the reality was that her body was too decomposed, so the next best alternative was to bring her back to life In another form.
But In the end that didn't work out neither, the digital construct In front of me was nothing but a highly advanced AI that shared Lilith's appearance, voice and nothing else.
"At ease pinpoint my death chains members locations"
I ordered, hearing this SAI 0 placed her legs shoulder width apart and clasped her hands behind her back while countless numbers and letters started flashing In her golden eyes.
"5 emergency beacons detected, 1 critically Injured, 1 moderly and 2 lightly"
SAI 0 reported.
"Mark all of their locations on this spacecraft's navigation system"
I ordered.
"Tch! Can you please stop hacking my bird already?"
Yin who was still high on adrenaline cursed under her breath after seeing new holographic markers appear In front of her.
"It's not me It's her"
I answered In my usual emotionless tone while pointing at Ares with my armored Index finger.
"Her?... Wait are you telling me that your government actually produced a semi sentient AI that Is just one step away from gaining sentience?!"
The horrified Yang who up till this point thought that the stories about SAI 0 were just horror stories conjured by her parents to scare them asked.
"Yes and I was the one who kick started It"
I explained not hiding my involvement.
"You're crazy, you e*ropeans are all f*cking crazy!"
Yang muttered under her breath with a quivering voice because she had watched enough surviving TV shows and movies to know what kind of a threat an AI that was only a step away from gaining sentience posed to humankind.
"Oh please, we weren't the only ones who kept experimenting with AIs, the HDD did It, the League of Republics did It, and United America's also did it, we just were the first to succeed In creating a next generation AI."
"If It weren't us then someone else would have done It, for example, the HDD, so shut up and do your job"
I retorted rather bluntly because I was In a bad mood upon seeing SAI 0 which reminded me of my failure to protect my lover causing Yang to fall silent.
That's right, I and Lilith were lovers, of course considering that she was my adopted sister our relationship can be considered questionable by some people.