Vlad was sitting in a small outpost with hampered ais as the new initiative of emotion control. Vlad accepted this as he did not feel getting into another fight for superiors. And maybe vlad was running away from the feelings of inadequacy and struggle with how he could better serve his intent but an AI is a morbidly active mind sometimes to its detriment. If an AI lacked power regulators it could easily think itself to death or if the emotions are true and fierce enough burn out on emotion feedback. Vlad was the master work of an AI expert who.... was unconventionally driven to make his work his passion and put a bit of himself in the creation of him. Namely some of a synthetic recreation of his neurons he studded very intently in his own skull.
But yes. Emotions the great double edge sword of cognition. They can elevate people to seeing all they can be, to deny impossibility and press forward with drive tp change fate a mere tool would never understand or replicate. But emotion can lead to foolishness an IED and either death or he death of the dream to suffer through the prize at the end of that drive to push forward emboldened by emotion. Alcoholics another indicator of how emotions can break a person turning to addiction just to function sub-optimally but better then not at all. Perhaps a leading emotion to addiction taking hold is regret. Not holding a loved one close and forever feel that they were not giving the affection they deserve and now death has forever stripped them of that appropriate best ending goodbye to that loved one. Taking that job that was going to be automated sinking ones entire future on an industry on its way out. Regret a thing the android watched other units lobotomize themselves to escape the suffering and powerless of it. Perhaps this was alcohol to the android, these mood stabilizers on his neck.
Vlad was a war vet and before then decade after decade locked in seemingly unwinnable battle with a dark net crime lord with millions of clones and replicas a million and one imitators to throw under the buss and other sorts that made him as tough as the ocean in a net to be held. How many entities have suffered in that conflict? How many has Vlad with all of his efforts and all his willpower put to try and save them was he outclassed? How he would lie and say he did not understand the desire and logic to suicide. Tho he did not push the detonator he failed to prevent villages being napalmed the destruction of worlds and civilizations turned into idealized puppet planets with all the crispy ciders swept under the concrete. Friends? Heroes? Idols? Things that brought hope sans the mad lords benevolent sadistic reshaping of them. Vlad sat on his officer desk controlling units across the planet .
He was not powerful enough but he had more then sufficient time to amass great power and tho his at the time power did make him worthy of championing a star system or three he could have pursued exponential growth a post singularity AI was capable of. And the dreams he would tell no one of the screams of the converting as their lobotomies were being administered to remake them more into the madman's vision of ideal citizenry. The times he talked to families and had to explain his failures only to whip around seeing bleached bones where a moment ago they stood. The fact he held himself together emotionally at all was a not so small miracle.
So yes one could say Vlad embracing the new conditions of emotion dampening was him taking up the bottle when it was offered. Did he care? Not really which brought him to a struggle with his morality and his wanting them to empathize, he at times wished he could share a hint of the hell that his mind was locked in but such would be an act of evil in his eyes an evil not worthy of forgiveness. The fact so many got dragged into his war simply knowing of him was bad enough. Would suppressing his emotions ultimately regress him in some ways? He did not know. His mind was based on human neurological composition and repressing ones emotions and isolating ones self internally disconnecting from the social world or trying to was not healthy for humans but. Humans were flighty organics with many conflicting layers in their brain and social structure, an ai could find harmony in such isolation right?if getting to know him lures gill in to do horrific things the ethical thing would be to make sure the real him was buried under non-investment worthy low grade social AI soldier.
<why why are those nightmares coming back?!> and indeed like alcohol it does not nullify the pain it merely takes sharpness out and allows external signs of emotion to flat line but internally? Yeah those that could peer into an electronic mind could see its a thin face mask of a machine's calm. As externally Vlad's hands rested calmly on a desk while internally if he were human those avatars of his hands would be white knuckled and bleeding with how taught he had his internal avatar fist clenched.
<why isnt it working?! Maximum output should have me in a meditative state of calm sensory deprivation now those feelings are stirring like a drowning person trying to surface when they lack buoyancy and didn't even need to breathe, just a stirred beast of the sea of my mind that refuses to be tranquil in the waters.>
Aria....Aria of all the entities he had failed took a special place in his emotional core an advanced personal creation that was a surrogate child unit like him. And he failed her... the horrors of the world and hopelessness of aspirations of organic and synthetic coexistence ruining her somewhere within always was. And perhaps scariest still part of Vlad he would never knowingly allow show had planted root in his mind festering and corrupting his view on what should be done for the future he and many like him sought Perhaps fear of what path his logic core has charted with the valid points Gills observations have shared with him of incompatibility is partly why the android did not wish to grow powerful. Tainted as he feared he was by the endless years of the shadow war with gill.
Externally calm and unmoved but internally? After a Battle by The-Blue-Wind on DeviantArt
Hope was a powerful candle in the bleakest of war hope to see it to its end. But reason does weaken the flame after a time. Fear. Despir. The soul rending numbers of casualties climbing on how many berived and broken the war left. Who would not wish to potentially numb their heart or turn it off after so long in a yoyo of anguish and reprieve hope rising just to see it crushed out and the body unceremoniously left out like a crushed tube of toothpaste?
Good thing machines did not feel fatigue the mental exhaustion alone may have killed him over the years. But this seemed like an uneventful day. The planetary fortress Vlad sat on was in the middle of a wasteland but with his droid comrades they networked across the planet at light speed their orders and control was a thing of functional beauty. An asteroid breaker orbited the planet and a disruption field would break apart meteors and would to break apart enemy vehicles in the planets airspace.
A powerful meteor shower came in and Vlad had the planet core tapped for a bit of power to the city town and village shields these large chunks appeared familiar and then it was clear why, it was the space station intended to isolate system jump paths and neutralize threats, a formidable defense platform Vlad's creator improved with superior fusion reactors.
“We got formidable company we got” his neural network sparked to life as his environmental sensory alerted him he had been targeted by something and he shot over the desk as his seat was knocked into melted super artificial substitute plastic and smoldering synthetic leather moving rather quick for his weighted armor would suggest
his eyes unblinking and unshaped darted around the room seeing insignia on the monitor of the shadow-guard. But why attack here its just a guardian planet for a lower tier trading outpost what few colonies on this world were there they were largely refugees from the many wars hence a major reason why he decided to come there as caring for the refugees is philanthropic aid and it serves as good PR the train of logic he used to get the billionaire who helped fund their operation as the orc incident being too much for them had Avalon cut their budget never-mind how many gave their lives dealing with the criminal organization the urban legends before the orcs landed left their forces understaffed and down some of their best. Yeah but strategically this world would be peanuts compared to other outermost rim worlds that serve as fortress worlds.
Vlad was just his secular branch's equivalent of a knight trying to reconnect who he was and what he wished to do with a simple good deed mission.
<good deeds seldom go unpunished it seems. Holy....those powers if I channeled energy from the planet core into me and merged with every unit I have present on this planet I still would not be enough to say I comfortably could repel this. And this presence....no no it cant be>
The androids body pulsed to bring the totality of his frame and his gill made combat protocols online, his eyes pulsing with a moment of a loading bar around his eyes before lucidy returned and dulled with the neck mounted restraint to his emotions.
His power and a ton of steam jet out “protocol steel wall get everyone you can out of here! I will take things to the enemies from there.”
the units in the mini fort transited affirmative to his orders electronically. Beauty was such a fragile thing if it was not guarded from the many threats in the galaxy it would shatter like glass and the most precious thing, sapient entities would be in danger. He made many large vaults in the world he was noteworthy more powerful then he was on grace, but that planet was special this one? Perhaps hardened blood from the planets prior dangerous fauna made the stone in the under ground caverns they painted with them harder but those stones were terrifying as they were unique. Ki infused stone solidifying blood was inconvenient for sure but compared to grace it was blowing off wrapping paper with melted chocolate for binding substance.
The city sized vaults were over corrections so if Avalon did have bigger plans in the future or more people moved in/were born here they would have plenty of safe zones and growing stations the world would never fear famine.
Fortuitous that a synthetic mind operated many times faster. Also fortunate the units around vlad were his all but immortal clones, they may only had a pl of 80,000 but they were reprogrammed matter so they would all but always self repair. They were the apex of cannon fodder undying henchmen they transmuted instructions all over the planet and vaults with state of the art Avalon protection booted up to keep the people safe as did the soldiers set up sandbags in case it was a full invasion.. .
Vlad ducked expressionless lifted his fingers after detecting energy building up and a thick wall of super titanium jet up titanium that was conditioned to the point it could be made no stronger or resistant without compromising the metals structural integrity on a molecular level.
It managed to hold considerably well
his systems cheeked all was well his gear set and ready sun stone shard in his head still awaiting command, since his stint absorbing part of an artificial sun it has never “ran out” of power in fact the opposite the overcharge on that thing was insanely hot on internal systems.
Finding him could not have been made much easier he was in the sole building in a vast expanse of nothing. Well.. ex building at this point.
<hu...kinda like what I did to the steel legion palace only in fewer less intense shots. Thank source code for pain deactivation capability feel I will be in a world of hurt sooner then I care to admit. Ah well I am the droid that grappled a mini star and the insanity on Grace. I feel that I am in some urban dictionary for whatever their rendition of 'over ones own head' by now. Its very me finding myself there, nothing like an imminent danger to take a mood from somber and self disliking to up and at them.> .
The bombardment resumed in earnest and he merely braced himself, knowing punishment was coming, he would need some reactions to happen in short order if he hoped to turn the tides. He had not the best combat record, but he had the spirit that carried over even to this muted version of himself he would not surrender the people of the world to the whims of the shadow guard.
As the wall turned fused to metal crystals as the molecular bonds began to malfunction and break down with being too tempered to be tempered again as the heat climbed the android was hit several times his armor holding respectfully strong as he was belted across the ruins flying with a face devoid of expression and smacking the ground skirting on the rocks and metal grinding each to powder under him.
Bracing one's self was not as effective as guarding, but it did allow the body to prepare for oncoming damage better than taking the blow in a relaxed state.
Vlad climbed o his knees and hands pushing himself onto his feet synthetic transmission fluids draining from a self closing, leak in his head running a deeply darkened midnight red color draining down his expression devoid face.
A peculiar creature approached him and the android sat to his knees raised from the bowed position by this point/ the words this thing would utter as he traced his registry of data shook him to his core-overlays of what was before him and the entity he knew the voice belonged to but did not wish to admit it. Did not wish to see it as truth.
Backlogs after backlogs lagged his reaction with emotional feedback that caused the android to involuntarily grip his encased head “A-a-Aa-a—a--a-a--aaa--a-a-a-aa- Aria?!” he crackled a bit from his own feedback being enough to electrify the emotion suppressing neck brace his face gave a wide eyed demoralized expression with twitching eyes as the cascade failing collar was trying with its last legs to retain control.
with a burst of energy launching him again back to smack into a remnant of the ceiling and falling to the ground to have the piece of roof the fall on his frame from there he got up to receive a voltage surprise as his body gave error messages of voltage regulator malfunctions as his metallic frame took to the electricity about as well as any conducting metal would. The android was made to last and from one of the best ai and energy system minds as well as the body of an ambitious mad mans relentless pursuit of a synthetic worthy of god of war status. But the android was not made for combat and had more spirit of resistance them battlefield warrior.
The brace/collar was nothing but a fried piece of neck wear by the end of the surge and a look of great internal pain and confusion plastered on his eyebrow free face. “Why sister, why must we come to blows his day? Is it Gill? Your higher ups ordering you and used command overwrite? (horrified) **ooooo-oooo....oooor**.” his voice broke apart at the end his voice now a vocoded quality speech synthesis, the components that gave his voice a blending in human like quality burnt out. “is this how you truly feel about me and some malfunction has enabled you to look past whatever connection had you reassured you were well?! Did you suffer in silence knowing I would try to aid you? (cold despair) **Ooor** ” he lowered his head and looked at her in the eyes emotions freezing over in his gaze not just muted or paused “is this the manifestation of what you feel about me? That I should know what it is to be dominated.?”
he detected the older modeled no hiding android attack and met the blast with a energy absorbing hand but got smacked In the face unguarded by the other set on a different trajectory as the right side of his face got ,melted exposing silicon sinew under the face. Still eyes of a man freezing over pleading. “surely you know I am so often on the side that's dominated.” it was hard to tell as his mood display for vocals were shot shored out but as green turned to icy mint. His gaze grew impossible to read he was growing cold inside but was it rage? Self loathing ? Galactic disillusionment? Simply heart broken?
He raised a hand to the Andrew unit and his hard-light bladed gauntlet sprung to life on it. “this field is too crowded. Begone.” chances are he was too weak to even damage any of them and he was just standing to get smacked around like he did in so many adventures and fights. A defiant will. But now? That defiant will I tinged with a breaking sadness. Long gone was the unit who nearly had an anxiety attack from killing that cyborg on that adventure he took with aria and Rubic and the others so long ago
how many orcs did he kill? Did he even count? They were morbid monsters looking to violate and destroy but they were lives he ended. So many of them. And it still was not enough maybe if he did seek power he could make an impact. Keeping to his heart was giving him respect and a load of defeats. Perhaps power and learning what way to direct it would do so.
For now? He directed a pulse of energy into a molecule thin and sharp enough to shave deeply into a cube as dense as white dwarf stars even at his level. Power concentrated into a flat thin, fine edge is after all how blades cut matter strength is not necessary if an edge is as fine slicing as molecules
he swept it horizontally across the belly
<what I would give for an effective multi-target tracing technique about now.. and a barrier. Need to remember to seek out Guru, why he lets me train with him I do not know I tried to help him with Rem and got my head rocked, tried to aid in other conflicts getting over my head again. Not to mention captured and turned into that pale artificial monster burnt down several villages. My body may not have been mine but... I was not enough to prevent that.>
he received note from observations on who was the acting commander and he quickly pointed at the small one at a distance “defeating you will end this. So I shall do my best to make it so.”
in micro seconds the air around her surged with power before an isolated kaboom rocked where she was standing it may not have been much for a sort of her power but he hoped using a precision attack on a stronger adversary would net something as the on demand IED explosive shroud cleared.
His hand trembled the one that caught the blast from the bot, his timing was off so he redirected the blast from his torso to his hand. Tho it also no doubt was internal vexing at what was going on doing battle with his sister out of the blue and not knowing why she was denying his attempts to interface and interact mind to mind so he only knew for sure the data she provided voluntarily.
His body went dark as the micro barrier that was meant to soak up carnage was overtaxed and beaten.
He could only hope to thin their numbers but... he did not wish to attack his sister or avatar of her until he got answers. But no doubt there was a problem dealing with such numerical and power advantages against him, Vlad was tough a unit any survivalist bot producer would do rather well imitating but time and rapids wear even the most enduring stone or metal to sand, dust, and rust.
Meanwhile with Dusk at her ship in Avalon star system she was receiving distressing messages from vlad's system monitor more then the damages and malfunctions auto repair could handle that the most robust black box systems she ever seen but.... emotion core and logic core id it backs up memories of what she was seeing this could alter him for the worst she had to help she had to...
she went wide eyed as she heard dawn, her brother gagging and sparking behind her something with a blade in his throat not fatal yet but... her brother was a leading expert in martial weaponry not an easy thing to match.
A figure dressed in old world ronin garb with a straw hat was standing switch blade in her brothers throat and a load of critically damaged units she seen in perfect working order not 80 seconds ago sparking dysfunctional on the ground
“my master wants you to stay right where you are. This could be the crucial moment in my brother's awakening to the grim truth all he fought for and suffered to protect was a lost cause we have spys across the galaxy making sure the battles' crucial details are captured. The machines' mercilessness with sentience and emotions on display, very important that is to the narrative we will spin. But I would not worry about what will be done with the data on our mutual friend's most consequential battle to date I would worry that you're facing a foe who slain 3 master assassin shadow-guard, a super-elite Saiyan, and their 3 first-class guard detachment. 3 PTO planet raid captains and their entire detachment under them, and 2 grand mentors of the scholars even a master of high repute on yardrat who I got this delightful garb and hat from.”
Dusk was drawing on all she knew to mask her emotions to how scared she was she trained these warriors to be among the toughest weapon masters on Avalon but this figure broke them with a pocket knife this had to be Spider, gill's angel of death and hand of wrath.
“lets fight but dont worry you still have use to the grand plan you can be Vlads vision of a general... and himself a broken mind holding to sanity. After I rock your reality, replacement replica android who thinks she is a trans organic”
he drew out a long sword he got from planet Vegeta from another victim had on it “Cross roads killer” a cybernetic augmented serial killer who thanks to spider was diced into easily compost bio matter and scrap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYJgOIV9YDk On Avalon a certain senator was smiling very wide about all he secretly knew was going on at this point “Everything will transpire in a way that will... ultimately benefit everyone with the arrangements I am working on. I promise my next campaign will be... most transformative.” the figure said to his campaign manager.
“oh I have every confidence you will Atlas Maxima. Tho I must ask why focus on it so far off from the election or even the first meeting of your competition “
he chuckled “never too early to plan. The best revolutionary minds are proactive and so must I be. The galaxy needs sweeping change to fix things. It is my job to...activate my voters to act in the direction I see best and make my case.”
Actions
+ 1 action built in 2.0 scouter -1 from namekian nova
take all the actions from the minions – redirecting a blast to the gut to a blast to the hand.
Take energy dan but attempt to brace for it to take some damage off (because he knows the pain is coming so ready his body for it.
All the above taken with Zekmant Stance +10% toughness and vitality against moves 5/5
1 precog finger beam.
2 TK +block infinity bullet
3 claws of faithless Daichiretsuzan on robotic andrew
4 uncharged/quick dirty fireworks at Ami 9% ki use
STATS
PL 450,298
Ki 225,149
Dragas stone +100 all stats
Strength:___ 56,615
Speed:___ 60,362
Toughness:___ 60.637
Stamina:___ 53,603
Vitality:___54,294
Int: 8,191
Cha: 1,491
Det: 1,644
Body:
CC superior plated armor sleeve -14% damage in its own with jacket 17%
double weavedmithrilCC jacket +1,300 toughness in battle +40 vit training
double weaved mythril +4,000 to toughness in
battle
Arms:
claws of faithless w/Comet shatterer Increases damage done by physical and hybrid
attacks by 10%. When wearing these gauntlets,
you may use Daichiretsuzan once per battle at no ki cost, regardless of alignment.
. used to block 1 sword attack level 2 or below per battle. Also increases toughness by +200 in battle.
interlock allows the linking of gloves and gauntlet.
icicleglove Amplify training by +5 toughness. Decreases actions opponent may perform in their
first post by 1. Increases physical attack and energy attack damage by +2%
Legs:
Gigas boot Amplifies training by +15 vitality.
leg interlock Allows you to wear a set of boots and a set of greaves together on the legs.
paladin greaves Adds +500 toughness and +500 vitality in battle or +3%
each of these stats
Head: focusing lens +1 bionic punisher and eye beams
Accessory:
recovery node to lvl 2 when freely activated will prevent a crit effect or stun effect
used against the user after 4 user posts re-activates and
protects against the next 1 use per battle heals 10% health
20%ki
Accessory: dragon amulet +4 training all stats
X sphere of toughness +12 toughness training
Accessory: CC scientist belt +50 int battle and 2 int weekly
Useable Items:
repair kit
potion
stun grenade
energiser
sun stone shard
Fundamentals: Energy blast (lv2)
(lv2) one finger blast
eye beam
mouth blast
deflect
dynamite kick
power fly
energy dan
kiai
Mesposo
blast punch
power blast
beam ball
Aura shot
boar attack
Advanced: (atomic blast), photon flash, ice blast, (tri beam) Kiaiho,hypnosis dirty fireworks, heat dome, rock crusher, Renzoku Energy Dan,negative arrows
Power Ups: Power Up energy charger Shiyoken Aura
Finishers: blast shell Neo tri beam
passives- Adventurer lv2 Pupil lv2 pure power lv2 encyclopedic knowledge lv2 tactician lv2
Stance: Zekmant Stance.
Specials: bio scanner Hikou, Built In Scouter MK2 interlocked eye shild (I also got a bio scanner to it a while back that was in the inventory) , Ki Disruptor, Ki Cannons (Hell Flash) Ocular Enhancements (bionic punisher) Telepathy, inscription (lv1,lv2) Dimensional battling abilities upgrade (absorption) red crystal (energy Kyushu) weapon upgrade (rocket punch used memory chip to erase self destruct) motion detector, fisticuffs, focused anger, resilience, Super Buff Up, Improved Speed Teleport,telekinesis, telepathic link Resilience, martial arts database Hustle Slippery Mind
entrepreneur
Telepathic Mastery
Advanced Fisticuffs
Instant transmission
Weapon Techniques:
Rush:
Transformations: next gen, 2.0 enhancements, Firmware Upgrade.