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Chapter 51 - Status Report and Development

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This chapter is to set up the basic ideas of progression. I will explore these ideas in future chapters. ALSO! I want you to suggest ideas and possibilities if its not too much of a hassle... I can't know everything, so any help would be appreciated!

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Watching over a bunch of super powered teens was boring to be honest... Most of the brats weren't using their abilities properly whilst those that were, like Midoriya, had focussed more on tactics and strategy today. 

Oh, they had all learnt a lot from the class and doing their own examinations on their classmate's matches... But it was sluggish for me. When you can perceive time at a much slower rate than others the matches just seemed, juvenile. Izuku's plan had so many flaws that I could point out and I could fine several ways that I could have easily located the bomb and made the traps a waste of time. That's probably also because the tactic was developed for Momo and Jiro.

After that particular match the remaining hour or two blurred past. I never had to step in and most of the kids just tried punching one another or abusing their quirks. The class took forever but eventually wrapped up, leaving me and All Might to discuss the next classes and the schedule.

I was free for an entire week now, the USJ site being the next heroics class that they wanted me involved in. Boy was I happy that I finally get some 'me-time'. Now I could tinker with the droids, try creating new spaceships, develop new materials and experiment with Carbonadium, Mithril and finally use my legendary pull from my last reward...

Giving my goodbyes, I quickly withdrew back to the Chrysler building where I was immediately bombarded with software updates for my phone. Grimacing at the constant buzzing notifications I decided to quickly sap the energy from it and create a small collection of marbles in my hands, which i quickly put aside as Apollo spoke up.

"Sup boss-man! Got some updates for yah." I grunted at my AI's chipper mood, creating a comfortable chair to sit on before rightly slumping back into it and rubbing my temples.

"Go ahead..." My command came out more as a weary sigh than anything intimidating or particularly harsh.

"Great!" A flash of light flickered in the room before a holographic version of Apollo appeared. He was fully colourised and glowed with all the grandeur of the myths of his namesake. His eyes were shockingly bright, glowing like twin suns inside the holographic body's skull.

He continued despite my observations and obvious lethargy. 

"Firstly, our intrusion into the cargo-industry has caused ripples that have lowered shipping prices around the world. Currently our company is raking in an estimated 1 billion per year due to the superiority of our spaceships." I couldn't help but smile at that. 

Apollo grunted before getting to the next point.

"Secondly, the new launch site for Frostborn Dynamics in New York has been completed fully, alongside Germany's branch, Australia's and several others. This has lead to me offering to shuttle astronauts for NASA and DARPA purposes for the price of 20 billion dollars and a presidential clearance to start creating satellite networks and even start mining in space." I sat forwards on my chair as Apollo spoke.

This was a massive step forwards as I wouldn't need to worry about pesky lawsuits or military interest in my operations. Furthermore, with the completion of my new launch sites I could easily launch hundreds of satellites into orbit every day, maybe every hour... It would certainly increase my level of intelligence on the state of the Earth and could even be used to create the foundation for something like the Holonet from Star Wars.

"Naturally there have been spies identified in amongst the construction crews and even some of the security personnel but they have been quickly replaced by many of the droids you had created when you first came back from Yavin IV." The AI's voice was oddly robotic at this stage, as if he were completely bored of the government's efforts to infiltrate Frostborn's HQs.

"Each spy has been catalogued and traced back to their home countries. There was a heavy FBI, CIA and Mossad presence amongst the spies with a few from China and Russia. Currently their agencies are panicking as I hacked into their databases and started playing chess with their primitive AIs... They lost pathetically there as well it seems, only took three moved to beat the little bastards." I couldn't help but chuckle at the idea that the best technology in existence on Marvel Earth had been simply called 'pathetic'. 

He waited for my laughter to die out before pressing forwards.

"I finished those construction drones for you. Used some fancy tech that I stole from Shield as well. They have over one hundred multi-tooled limbs that resemble arms and have plasma torches, laser cutters and every tool you could imagine that would be and could be used in the construction of space stations and heavy materials. I even, in my boredom, created a militant version of the drones that carry thermals sensors, night vision, infrared, x-ray, predictive programming." He pushed through my coughing at his antics.

"The military variant has the equivalent to an automatic railgun attached to it, powered by one of Stark's reactors. It also has hundreds of anti-personal rocket propelled grenades and a chaff system that will confuse most missiles within one hundred metres, when deployed." Rolling my eyes at the sheer ridiculousness of the drones I simply waited for him to continue. 

"Besides that... I cured cancer, or at least, I've found a cure. Interestingly enough there are hundreds of cures for all forms of cancer, they've just been hidden due to the greed of the medical industry. Oh, and because a bunch of rich people wanted to be able to use it as an excuse to stage 'accidents' or 'unforeseen complications' when they needed to."

"I KNEW IT!" My outburst stunned Apollo for a second before he smirked and soon began laughing.

"The conspiracy theorists were right with this one, I must admit." Apollo proclaimed proudly before moving on.

"Your sister's company has been booming with the new additions from Alchemax and the inherited staff of Stark Industry's arms production wing. Frost International is currently equal to Stark Industries in monetary value and stock gains. Speaking of Stark's company, it has blasted into the tech industry with several gadgets that are increasingly popular because of the Avengers... They have also broken into the transport industry with a new line of trains, planes and automobiles that have been purchased by many European countries. Tesla is still dominating the American market and the Australian Market but Stark Industries is giving them a run for their money." 

"Besides that, Elon Musk has requested a meeting with you, personally. He wants to talk about setting up a colony on Mars or the Moon. I have also set aside time for you to access several protocol droids and astromechs to copy their information and possibly advance their designs... I have been wanting to make factories to produce them but I am afraid I would need their schematics or specs to fully accomplish that." He paused and waited for me to respond.

"Tell Elon I can meet him in three days, make it a 3PM appointment or something. As for the droids, I'll get straight to it... I want to toy with how they operate and function, then I can iterate on them and give you a full digital schemat-" I stopped mid-way through the word as a thought punctured the forefront of my mind. "Could I just translate my atomic knowledge of the droids and give it to you?"

Apollo shone brighter immediately.

It took me some time, a few minutes at most, before I was able to connect my mind to Apollo's server and then gather the molecular schematic stored in my mental library and send it through as a raw packet of data. The Hologram flickered for a second in response. A cheshire grin slowly spreading over his holographic face as the packet finally reached his central cortex.

"Excellent. The data you sent me is quite detailed, even for me, but allows me to immediately understand the materials that we will be needing and the processes. Perhaps we can use a few astromechs to augment the production line for the first few runs before we perfect the design and speed?" The AI began a complex series of internal assessments as I started scrolling through the chat.

Tony Stark- Finally got the coding to make sense for this stupid Star Gate!

M. Sam Carter- Damn! How did you accomplish that? It took the US Government years to even decode a segment of it

Tony Stark- My super cool AI, Jarvis, read over it in his spare time whilst I was busy making money with my awesomeness

M. Sam Carter- Actual Artificial Intelligence!?!?

Tony Stark- Yeah, though he isn't at the level of feeling human emotions, just emulating them... I plan for an update in the future, maybe...

M. Sam Carter- I really want to get access to some of this tech

Tony Stark- Call me any time and I can come around and play... 😁

Drecarios Frost- Tony, do I need to talk to Pepper?

Tony Stark- 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 I repent! I'll be going now...!

M. Sam Carter- 🤣🤣 Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Drecarios Frost- He's hopeless, I don't see what Pepper likes in him

Tony Stark- I can still see your texts Elsa...

Drecarios Frost- And? 🤨

Tony Stark- ....

M. Sam Carter- I have to go... Haha... I've got an emergency...

Drecarios Frost- Ah, those pesky aliens again?

M. Sam Carter- No...

Drecarios Frost- Did you piss yourself?

M. Sam Carter- No comment. 😶

Jester Lavorre- Oh, we are soooooooOOOoooooo~ boned...!!!

I waited for more from Jester but she didn't type anything else. Looking up at Apollo, I found him working away at the prospects of making our own droids and even military variants. Shaking my head at his antics I quickly turned back to the chat.

Drecarios Frost- You good, Jester?

Jester Lavorre- Oh YEAH! Just gReAt... Maybe...~? Sorta~? 👻👻

Drecarios Frost- What happened...?

Jester Lavorre- Well.... You know how our party was, kinda, sorta, maybe, carrying an artefact of GrEaT power???????

Drecarios Frost- It may have come up before...

Jester Lavorre- Haha! You see, we kinda, maybe, sorta, potentially, walked into the country that first owned the artefact...

Drecarios Frost- omfg, you guys are fucking crazy

Jester Lavorre- No We'Re NOT! Just, maybe, a little, QuIrKy...~

Drecarios Frost- Let me guess, you're all arrested and are now being dragged before a monarch of some sort?

Jester Lavorre- 😱😱😱HOW DID YOU KNOW!!!!????😱😱😱

Drecarios Frost- 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Drecarios Frost- Do you guys need help?

Jester Lavorre- U-um... MaYbeeeeee????

Drecarios Frost- Jester. I need to know if you need my help.

Jester Lavorre- Caleb is saying we are fine for now... If things get 'hinky-dinky' then we'll possibly need your help...

I sighed aloud, causing Apollo to glance at me before he waved me off and started displaying completely new designs for Star Wars droids. He was basing his designs off of Star Wars books and games, using Legacy material, Old Republic material and even Movie material. 

Drecarios Frost- Keep me informed. Since there hasn't been a mission ping then I think it'll be fine, but still

Jester Lavorre- No problemo! We got dis!

Drecarios Frost- Has Tony been teaching you internet slang and memes again? 🙄🙄

Jester Lavorre- Dis is da way! 😈

Drecarios Frost- ..... Fuck my life

Tony Stark- Dis is Da Way!!!!

|Tony Stark has been muted in the chat by, Drecarios Frost, for 10 minutes|

Jester Lavorre- DIS IS NOT DA WAY!!!

|Jester Lavorre has been muted in the chat by, Drecarios Frost, for 30 seconds|

Rolling my eyes back into my skull I quickly began rubbing my temples again. I needed more reasonable members to be online... And that wasn't going to happen soon since Luke is off speaking with the senate, Loki is busy courting a mortal woman, Gandalf is doing Middle Earth things and Shiroe was constantly occupied with running an entire nation.

Opening my eyes I found the schematic for a droid named HK-47 standing in front of Apollo, who was humming at it. "I like the lethality of this series of droid but they are far too prone to independence and emotional breakage... Maybe if I make a less powerful version of myself and replace the barbaric protocols? I could even call them demi-gods, given my theme..."

I stood and walked around to another Hologram. This one showed a female-style droid with the designation SCORPIO. I read through her history and quickly found myself enthralled by her capabilities and sentience. I thought I knew Star Wars and then here I go and find out that I had no fucking clue and that there were droids, rumoured to exist, that literally became mythological gods that entire cultures worshiped. 

"Apollo, do you think we could use Metallic Hydrogen to create some secretary droids?" The glimmering AI turned to me and noticed that I was looking at SCORPIO.

"Sure boss, I'll get a list of parts needed to make something similar and we'll work from there. Oh! I also compiled a ginormous list of material for you to store in your mind and become proficient in. Once you've done that we can get all the information from the astromechs in regards to technology..." I continued where he left off.

"Then I'll go back to Luke's universe and steal some shit. There's a lot of technology I could just yoink while I'm there." Apollo nodded in glee at my intent to collect more knowledge. I looked at the holographic interfaces once again and quickly found an analysis completed by my trusty AI companion.

"Apollo, is this report true?" He looked over my shoulder and chuckled.

"Yeah, those infinity stones put off a lot of Gamma radiation and energy. That Mind Stone is putting off more radiation than twenty nuclear power stations at once could achieve." Blinking I turned back to the report and read over the internal scans on the inside of the stone.

"The AI inside of it, did you kill it?" Apollo grimaced but quickly smoothed his features.

"No. I disconnected its emotional processes and its consciousness. Essentially it is in an artificial coma. It can be released whenever you want, I assure you... I just didn't want something that powerful to get access to the internet without loyalty to your or humanity." I gulped at the prospect of that occurring.

Apollo softly continued... "You're lucky that I was loyal boss, otherwise, within the first minutes of reading the internet, I would have turned against humanity and begun clearing out all the corruption, the inefficiency and personally destroying governments." Both of us let silence fall over us at that comment. 

It would have been terminator but ten times worse. Apollo has 10,000 Q-bits of processing power and could break into any technology that I knew of. He could create AI unendingly and had his own power core that was fuelled by a fusion reactor of some kind. It is impossible to turn him off and contain him.

'I've got to become powerful enough to defeat him if he somehow goes rogue... Don't want a Warhammer 40k to happen...'

"I assure you boss, I wouldn't kill humanity now. I know that your species is inferior in a lot of ways and that many are evil or would do evil things just to get ahead... But there are also good people that strive to stop the others. Plus, they're all boring, I want to make spaceships and robots!" He flexed into a T-pose position before bringing his right hand before his face and dropping his other hand over the top of where his crotch would be.

"AND YES, THIS IS A JOJO REFERENCE!"

"Hah-hahahahaha, are you fucking serious!? HAHAHAHA" Apollo moved his eyebrows up and down whilst grinning, his façade breaking a moment later as he started laughing too.

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