A New Thorn

Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2018 @ 11:12am by Captain Sumire "Remi" Rembrant & Thorn Ironhart

3,008 words; about a 15 minute read

Mission: Season 2; Mission 2: It's Only Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt
Location: City-Ship; Residential Section
Timeline: October 19th 4566; Afternoon

After Remi arrived back at the city with Jayce and was grilled by medical she headed out from the medical office and walking by one of the loading and unloading areas in the military section a rather large box appeared that caught her eye. It was one of those usual X Track boxes that contained a cryopod. After being lectured by doctors she felt like disobeying their instructions and want over to the box attempting to pry it open. It opened easily; and indeed inside of the box was a cryopod. The box was standing upright. She pulled out her smartphone and turned its light on as she looked over the pod wondering; since it was human sized whose clone was inside. She shrugs and presses the unfreeze button. "ATTENTION: Activating thaw process. This container is not aligned properly with the ground; please prepare to catch occupant if they do not awaken fully during the thaw process to prevent injury." A male voice from the pod's AI said. "Initiating thaw. Patient vitals are stable; neural backup process initiated in the event of error." Steam starts flowing out of the vents of the pod; since it was still trapped in a box the air was going out filling the area around Remi. Something then occurred to her; people were not frozen with anything but underwear on. She summons a coat on to herself with her VX and then takes the coat off; she picked a rather baggy hoodie of a pink variety. "Thaw at 25 percent." She continued to stare at the pod speechless at the sight. "Thaw at 50 percent; imitating revival process shortly; please stand by. This pod is not aligned properly; please be alert for occupant's safety.". the thaw continues.

An anticlimactic thump sounded from within the pod, followed by a groan.  Ropes of knotted muscle filled the skin behind her scarring.  Brown hair cascaded around a rounded face as her brows furrowed.  Bluing lips pushed icy air as she fumbled for some kind of internal control with shaking hands.

"revival test complete. All systems are working normally... Continuing thaw.... Thaw is at 75 percent. Beginning final checks. Thaw completed. " remi could see a final figure in the steam filled glass but couldn't make much else out. "Revival process started... patient is conscious. unlocking the chamber door; please stand by." the door opened and Remi stood in front of the pod as the rest of the steam was starting to clear. An oxygen mask was on her face as Remi looked inside to see who was there but also catch her if she fell; though  at first she didn't  really recognize who it was. 

A voice comes over Thorn's head as her VX powered on. "This si operator 47 with Medical Team Six... can you please step out for me and try to talk... I see you already tried to move your arms; are you too groggy?" A man asked inside her head. Remi meanwhile unaware of the voice in thorns head just waits for her ot come out still offering the hoodie.

"Fhuggoff it's cold!" Thorn slipped out of the pod to the floor, curling in on herself until the cryo shakes started to wear off.  Snaps and pops sounded from her chilled joints as she forced herself to her feet and ripped the oxy mask off.

She looked blearily at Remi, not quite recognizing her from the new perspective.

Remi offered her the hoodie finally just putting it on her. zipping it up. "I'm Sumire Rembrant... I've never experienced that; and I hope to never have to be in one of those... Who are you?" She asked. The operator did some more checks. She seemed fine. "Alright; all sensory and vital checks are complete... any issues remembering anything; any questions for me before I disconnect?" the man asked inside her head.(edited)

"Thorn.  How the fuck are you shorter than me?" There was still a glassy, bleary look to Thorn's face as she continued to warm up, memories coming back.
"Right, not four foot three anymore."

The operator noticed she could remember now; apparently taking a moment to find her bearings. He waited if she needed anything before terminating his link and frying their diagnostic connection.(edited)
"I thought; you said you didn't want... this?" Remi said to her confused apparently not knowing what happened in full or fully understanding really.

"I remember going in for a con...sult...  That bitch stabbed me!"

"What?" Remi said even more confused; the operator not disconnecting yet... Was she forced into a clone body. He stays on the line. (She can still sense that operator is connected BTW; its a diagnostic link to make sure her clone body didnt die, get hurt and that everything works)

"And whoever's stuck in my head please disconnect before I reach through and cuntpunt hard enough to make a trans woman jealous."  Thorn looked to Remi before letting off a breath.  "I went in for surgery to get my rebreather out.  Wake up here with more knowledge than I had.  Good chance I either died on the table or I'm gonna go throat punch a Vulcan."

The operator says something in her head. "Am I to understand this was done against your will... dying on the table is one thing; but forceful cloning... that's illegal... I'll disconnect but before that; do you want me to contact Information Security or the MPs?"  He asked. Remi "I see... yeah... you seemed quite against it when I talked about it... Sorry I was such a bitch by the way; I just got out of medical not to long ago myself... Being sniped is never fun... I should be dead or still in a hospital bed to be honest... Then they have to lecture me about not slowing down enough... What am I supposed to do for two weeks then... lay in bed and do nothing; you fixed my heart... I'm good..." Remi said.(edited)
HarperMadi, Queen of CaffeineLast Sunday at 5:22 PM
"Operator, I will determine the best course of action on my own.  Thank you for the engineering and legal knowledge packets.  Before you go, could you give me a quick augment diagnostic and double tap that my abilities are unchanged?"

She could see where Remi was coming from, and her own responses hadn't been well worded, either.  "You weren't the only raging bitch."

"Understood... I saw on the request that you asked for the same augs you had before minus some of the troublesome parts... that reinforcement one... Primitives were pretty shit TBH..." he pauses for a moment. "Everything you requested is functional. We also did install a VX so you can access our networks, use our shields and our HUD... Outside of that everything should be the same... except your height and normal aging stuff... Anything else I can do before I fry our connection chip so someone cant use it again... Just as a note; it might cause a headache for a moment while i'm torching the thing... I'll be sending a follow up email as well that you can send any questions to." He replied.

Remi shrugs "Well; such is life... you live and  you learn.... er... we should get out of here... wanna come back to my place so I can get you something more...  to wear and something warm inside you?" remi asked.

It wasabout then that Thorn looked down.  "Nothing more, Operator.  Unless you place a note that I shouldn't be waking up in a bikini.  Get a new body started for the guy who thought red lace was a good idea."

With a sigh, she rolled her shoulders and nodded to Remi.  I could go for hot chocolate and some real clothes."

Remi summoned another of her hoodies for herself as it was getting colder. She then led the way to her house. The operator meanwhile disabled the chip destroying it. In spite of walking being cool she was tired and the nearest transporter was a distance. Since it wasn't an emergency she couldn't very well ask for a site to site transport. She hails and automated car and it lands opening itself for the two of them to enter and directs it to her and Ari's house.

Meanwhile, Thorn had managed to get into her VX and redirect its controls to the screen in her wrist, looking up the manual in her HUD, she went over the systems and got it to network with the other augments.  By the time they arrived to Remi's home, Thorn was set up in the same way as she'd always been, just taller, and had borrowed a simple AI to research packets as she called forth the information.  It was still partitioning off a small part of her brain when she stepped out of the car.  "So I noticed all my scars are still here.  Like... All of them.  Including what feels like a surgical scar where my old rebreather port was."

"I don't know much about the whole implants thing... the only implant I have is a VX... Everything else is stored in that chip... since extra space... All its addons make life so much easier... I mean; some of  your augs the VX does its same function... I get going with familiar though... It is why I stay with what I know... Living in my virtual world." Remi said as they entered the house. Remi then took her upstairs to her room and into a walk in closet. "Take  your pick... THough I don't know it my bra's will fit... a replicator should be able to help with that..." remi said stepping out to make her a drink and something to eat.

Thorn wasn't exactly the type to take from others, even with an offer, but what she did was take inspiration.  From here, she could access the Oracle's cargo manifest and summon her own clothes, resized en route.  A pair of cycle shorts and BDUs, a black sport bra, and she looked through the closet to find something, before sending a request for a similar top, returning some of the Oracle systems test astronavigation data as recompense.  It didn't take long for Thorn to find herself looking in the mirror and scraping her too long hair out of her face.  She hadn't seen her left ear in years, and it had been replaced in the new body with an unscarred version, one she could hang her bangs on while she sought a knife to cut the rest of her hair away.
After a few minutes of fruitless searching that invaded no privacy, she followed Remi downstairs.  "No need to be using your clothes.  I got mine."

"You can use whatever... I have too many... and being with my fathers estate... they can hand me five million dollar dresses at the drop of a hat... I am a rich girl, who is a princess and owns parts of a giant tech company..." Once she finished talking and THorn came out she had food and drink set up for both of them. She then sat seeming quite tired as a result fo everything.

"Damn.  I'm just a mercenary.  Broke as a cut off college girl most of the time." Thorn shrugged, itching at her eyebrow.  "Several of my modifications were to improve my intelligence in a way that wouldn'r make me dangerous later on.  Neural plasticity was one of the major ones.  Made me one Hell of a mercenary researcher."

"I resembled that for awhile... Now daddy wants me to be his little girl again... don't send me off for adoption and that family takes my sister favoring her more than me... then he comes back wanting me... No... GLHF... I'll be your trophy... I'll lead your country but not your daughter..." She said. "I'm 26 by the way; my young girlish looks are a product of care and good genes..." remi said cynically.

"Same.  These good looks are the result of one Hell of a gene artist and... Yeah, I ain't the prettiest.  But apparently one of your fighter pilots had a thing for me when I was short.  So...  Maybe I'll go see how much trouble we can get him in trying to chase my Oracle."

"He was reassigned." Remi said knowing who she was talking about; Philips was sent off.
"So... Who exactly else do you know here... I couldintroduce you to some people... and like I told Akane... never say your not pretty." Remi said.

"I knew the Section 6 folks." Thorn shrugged.  "I know the doc.  Other than that... I haven't been real social.  Also, if we can keep the new body thing on the down low, I'd be really appreciative."

"Whatever you want my girl... If I need to keep a secret I can.... So what do you want to be known as then?" Remi asked. "We'll make you some friends too with the new you..."

"I'm still Thorn.  Far as I'm concerned, the operation I went for was a success.  Whether or not I got a new body... That's the part we bury."

"Okay; so jsut dont let people know  your a clone... I can do that." Remi sid as she began to eat.

"Thank you."  Thorn leaned up against the counter, picking up a mug of cocoa.  "May I?"

"Sure; by all means... its why its there... If I didn't want you to eat and drink why would I give it to you; same with the clothes... c'mon I am not that much of a bitch..." Remi replied.

"Hey, if there's anything I learned from what caused my augments, it's manners.  Speaking of!  If I can, I'd like to talk to the person whose decision it was to toss me in what I'm assuming to be a brand new body in stead of ripping my augs out."
Thorn sipped at the drink with a small smile, feeling the rich creaminess warm her core.

"Want me to head pat them with you repeatedly until they beg for forgiveness... I need to give medical a piece of my mind anyway..." Remi laughed.
HarperMadi, Queen of CaffeineLast Sunday at 7:29 PM
"Oh, I was gonna beat someone to death with their own genitals."
Thorn gave a laughing snort.  "Just don't know who, yet."

"Sounds like you need a plus 1... and you cant tear someone's ovaries out of them with them still alive..."
"At least... I don't think thats possible..."
She laughs again

"You can.  Just hard to keep 'em alive for much longer after that.  Anyway, enough hyperviolence.  I'm still getting used to having all my hormone systems up and running."(edited)

"Sounds like something we should do in my VR world... its safer to murder people there... No cops..."

"I'll stick to ransoming blueprints back to the originating governments."  Thorn grinned.  That had been one of her major sources of income in her world.  She and the Oracle would take high resolution scans of all systems of a warship, generate full working blueprints from that data, and then sell them to the highest bidder.  She always found it shocking how much a nation would pay for something they were already using.

"The thing here is we alternate between wars and usually here; the fucks we are fighting are actually bad... Like selling federation schematics to a bug army that will actually eat you... no Bueno... I don't like my dad but he gave me a fleet and I'd rather not be eaten."

"I was actually hoping to do something a little different, here.  Probably stellar prospecting or some such.  You know, actually earn an honest living."
mimiruuLast Sunday at 7:41 PM
"You can work with me... heh... Er... Yeah..."

"Okay, with that response, something not entirely honest is going on there."  Thorn looked over her mug with a questioning glare.  "Alright, I'm in.  It's either that or I enlist and hope they let me keep the Oracle."

"Honestly... Dude... like... I'm poly and bi... Get it... good; I'm glad we've established that cuase your not a loli anymore...." She sticks out her tongue.
HarperMadi, Queen of CaffeineLast Sunday at 7:46 PM
"Oh, thank Goddess, another person.  Lesbian and poly.  So yeah.  Now that I'm not a lolli anymore, I can go twix my nethers with somethin ain't run on batteries."

"Yes... we can be bad and tell society that women can be just as bad as men on any given day... screw social norms... get at me universe!!" Remi said giving a thumbs up.

Remi finishes eating and drinks her tea acting proper grinning a shit grin.
HarperMadi, Queen of CaffeineLast Sunday at 7:58 PM
"Thank you for everything, Remi.  I'm not exactly in a position to pay you back at the moment, but I promise my debt will be paid."  Thorn grinned, giving a curt bow.

"Its all good... I just want to call you a friend... That is all repayment I need... Rich girls don't have needs; don't  you know... Yeah tell that to my ex girlfriends and boyfriend who just left after fucking me... cool story gentlemen and ladies... pfft" She shrugs.
"Maybe at some point we could... have some fun... that would be down the line... and I really didn't do much. I just am being a friend." remi said standing and also doing a bow.


"Maybe at some point.  Till then, friend, no need to take care of me.  Not anymore."

"I get it... and I didn't see it as taking care of... more like helping a friend... See ya later then." remi said as she lays on her bed to take a rest.

 

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