Part 8. Getting To Control Machines


With a nod. The guard soon turned and we once again started wandering onwards ahead through the tubes of the alien ship from platforms of platforms i encountered with bubble shields of training pieces. And it wasn’t so long before hitting another one that was this time again empty, expect for the guardian sitting at the side of the shield bubble awaiting another person to arrive.

“Hello.” The guardian said as i got near the bubble. With the guard nodding me to go in i walked into the bubble and over to the guardian.

“So here we’ll be working on how to finally use the last key of yourself. Those nice fancy little floppy antenna’s on your head to control machines. So you’ll take your time to try tapping in from the most basic to the more extreme machines with codes, locks, and all that works. So for start. We’ll go with this ideal device you guys call drones. I want you to lift it off the ground and keep it hovered within the spot.” The guardian said and soon a circle mound rose from the ground to circle around the drone. Soon making it disappear behind the wall that stood up to 5foot tall infront of the guardian and me as i sat down.

“Begin whenever and lets see how you do.” They said.

I sighed and closed my eyes.

“Antenna’s fully unrestricted.” I heard a voice and soon i could feel like my antenna’s got the device slipped off them leaving my antenna’s now exposed without the sock device ontop of them.

I tried my best to focus and concentrate on the weird feeling i had of my surroundings. The strange wave in the air. It wasn’t sound, it wasn’t feeling, it was something else. A invisible feeling that somehow i felt like i could step into it. I didn’t know how to explain the feeling of it. But once i managed to grab it. I soon felt odd inside, like the strange wave connection i grabbed seemed to now be apart of me. It felt weird. I could feel different things within itself. And after a moment i could soon see out and sense stuff around within the strange device. The camera view’s, the sensors of awareness around it, the motors, it’s power flowing through it’s electronics. I felt myself inside the machine drone.

After a moment of focusing and feeling myself tapping inside the machine drone. I pushed myself to twist the motors on and spin the props up to speed. My spines on my back could hear the vibration rumble of the moments bouncing around from infront of me. And soon i turned the motors higher to slowly take off. The sensors helped me know my surroundings around, the camera helped me see what was infront of me. It had 3, one for the take off bottom camera, the recording view camera, and the flight front camera. It felt weird being able to see all visions points and feel the sensors ticking me about the walls surrounding myself from inside the drone.

I slowly rose myself in the drone up above the surrounding wall format to see the guardian infront of me nod.

“Good. Now take it for a spin.” The mentioned and waved a claw in the air to shoo the drone away.

I gave a nod from the drone and turned to fly around giving myself a feel of flying as the drone, twisting, turning, side drifting, pulling flips, and slowly getting more bolder as i went on. It was kinda fun.

“Open your eyes little one.” The guardian said.

I tilted my head from my normal body and hmmed. It took a bit to do so as i was trying to focus much on the drone’s radio signal to tap into. Though when i did open my eyes i lost my thought and the drone ended up flopping to the ground.

“It’s pretty tough. Having to be in another place in a whole different feeling is. Strange.” I said.

The guardian nodded. “It can be quite challenging. But you’ll get used to it. Keep trying.” They said.

I sighed and closed my eyes again to refocus. Getting the connection again and flying the drone. After awhile i slowly opened my eyes and seemed to manage to look into two different plains now. From my eyes and the drones own eyes of it’s camera’s. I can’t explain how weird it felt to be in two different locations at once with two completely different vision points. Not only that but the feeling of all the sensors on the drones to be aware of and your own. It was just whoa moment like. 

I slowly started to try independently moving my body head from the drone so it wasn’t like we both moved at the same time. That took some time to get used to selectively switching from such to such. But after awhile i soon was able to walk around and move the drone on it’s own while i was able to walk about.

“Good. Looks like you’re getting the hang of it. Now let’s try upping it a bit. I want you to try connecting to 2 more drones and flying them on their own while you’re in this one and moving.” The guardian said. Which made me glance at them for a moment in my normal form. The turn though took into same account and turned to look at them.

“Uh…..Ok.” I said not sure if i was able to. It was already tricky enough for bit to get connect with the already formed drone. But the guardian wasn’t waiting and soon two more drones rose from the ground to sit there active. Waiting for their ‘controller’ to fly them.

I could feel more singles. But focusing on them was a bit much while connected to the one currently flying, And i knew the guardian wouldn’t accept me just keeping the drone in a hover as i tried lifting the others. Or even for me to stand still. So i tried my best to slowly get a feel of them as i made myself and the current connection drone slowly circle around the guardian as i felt into the newer ones. These modules of drones were different from eachother with more sensors, features, connection abilities and more complexity to them then the simpler drone i was already flying. Which was making it tougher to tap into. Trying to spread your mind across things was much. And the guardian i bet could see my struggles as i was kinda spacing out walking around, sometimes kinda ‘glitching’ as i stuttered walk on fours. It might seem simple in outside. But being a normal person who’s trying to spread their mind out like a hivemind or a robot wasn’t really a task a normal person could do. So it was already very weird and hard to jump outside your own body to connect to a machine and feel all it’s parts. Almost like ghosting yourself into it.

When i finally managed to spin the props on one other drone. I couldn’t take it anymore and i kinda fainted, flopping my body and shutting down both drones that crashed into the floor. “Ugh…..”

“Not bad for your first time spreading outside yourself. It’s a start and that’s what counts.” The guardian said and soon tapped into the drones to move all 3 at same time around them with no effort.

I could only side look as i said on my side with a sigh looking bit at them controlling the drones like nothing. It wasn’t easy the said, And the feeling of being inside splitting your mind across just 2 was hard. Them able to do this with almost millions of nano particle machines. I couldn’t even process how that’d feel.

“Come come. We’ll stick with two. And then i’ll let you go ahead. I’ll make a note you’ll need more time to tap into the controlling ability that you can later train more. But i need you to atleast grow yourself out to two so you can understand how to untie yourself from just your own body.” The guardian said as they flew the drones down. One getting sucked into the ground to leave two infront of itself.

“I also know you’re still weak from just being changed and we might also be running you to much on these courses. I’ll have to talk with the management to adjust that for them to lighten up the training courses since this does put more strain than anything. Including the physical test of agility and strength you got done with might also put bit of a mental stress.” The guardian told.

I grumbled growled to myself as i pushed back onto my fours and stretched a bit. “Yeah. Mental and physical can hit in same places even if it doesn’t look like such.” I told and walked back over to the guardian to sit infront of them.

They nodded. “Let’s continue on.”  They said.

I nodded. And this time i kept my eyes open as i connected to one drone. Getting the props ramped up and fly spinning around. Slowly i tapped into the second one. Getting inside understand the components and feels of the robotic systems, camera’s, sensors, motors, power ability. It wasn’t easy to slide one’s self into it while also focusing on yourself, another drone to control, and doing such. But after a moment i got it ramped up the motors to hover and i soon stood up on fours to slowly move around. Making the first drone still dance about around the guardian as i slowly controlled the other one to start doing another kind of waving dance. All while keeping myself focus on my body’s movements. 3 different kinds of forms to understand and viewpoints were just bonkers. But i managed it. And i was getting used to it. I started doing more harsher movements across all 3. Myself, the first drone, the more advance drone, doing crazy stuff like loops, zigzags, jumping, and crawling on the floor.

“Very nice.” The guardian mentioned as they watched me train to be more in tune with the drones while also focusing on my normal form body. 

“I think we can stop here and let you go. You look like you’re good enough to pass on for now. But you’ll need to train more and with much more deeper look into harder stuff. But we’ll stop here. I’m sure you’re tired and want to rest.” The guardian mentioned.

I soon stopped and my split self turned all to look at the guardian. I nodded on my normal body and soon controlled the 2 drones to softly reland back down on the ground by them. Then i broke my link to the devices and sighed. I let myself lay down on my belly and let my head rest on my arms with a sigh again.

“Take some time to rest. I’ll take these back down. You can talk with the awaiting guard once you feel ready to get back up and follow onwards. This is the end for now. So they’ll take you to a private room for you to rest up and eat some food. Later you can then come out and mingle with others to talk with after if you want. But you’ll be required to wear a device for comms chat later with a management team for future requests.” The guardian told.

“Got it. Thanks. It’s been quite weird day or night i don’t even know what time it is.” I huffed as i slowly managed to pull myself back up again and stand on fours.

“Aww right. You humans relate to time differences. Hmmm. You’re from Los Angeles. So the time there would be just 2am July 5th.” The guardian told.

“Well. Yeah. And huh only 8hours since i gotten taken from the ground to the ship. Interesting.” I said.

The guardian nodded and gave a wave. “Anyways. I got more to bring. So go enjoy some rest. The guard will lead you to your place. Enjoy and sorry for the whole alien thing you’re having to learn of yourself little one.” They said.

“Ok. And thanks, and yeah. Uh. It’s been crazy. But it’s interesting.” I mentioned as i turned with a nod and walked on away from the guardian to the shield end. Soon phasing threw it and walking over to the guard on standby.

“Ready?” They questioned.

I nodded.

“K. I’ll lead you to your private room. It’ll have a isolated room you’ll be able to sleep in that will be noise free, communications free, and wireless signals free of. Giving your mind and body to rest from everything. But if you want there is also internal speakers to give a light background noise of stuff for person to make them feel at home better. Up to you. But it’s great place to rest. Nice soft bed, comfy place to relax in. And plenty of storage food. From meats to veggies, fruits, breads, everything one would wish. And you can eat whatever since we’re not a specific herb or carnivore species.” The guard mentioned as me and them started walking away from the training course down more tube walk ways.

I don’t know how long it was that i walked with the guard. But as we did, we soon came into a large area that seemed like walking into a town of such, Ferals, other Human Borns all running, walking, playing around, and chatting about like it was just another day for them and enjoying the times. From nearby playground with kids having fun, to adults watching, to some just playing with other tech things. It seemed like a happy little place and no one felt odd. There was even food stalls and other small places around like little marketside stories about. It just felt again like a normal street side little town that you’d walk down seeing the activeness of the place. I couldn’t help myself but take in the scene to the place. Thankfully the guard managed to not lose me as they shifted to semi walking beside me.

After awhile of small sight seeing, We started making way into a large building that seemed like a not so high but long ways kinda hotel sorts. When we walked in the lobby was pretty semi large with pretty open grounds. Then the guard took me to a nearbying wall room of room 50. Once he stopped by the door he knocked on it and the door suddenly opened sliding sideways.

“Welcome to your new home for awhile here. Enjoy the rest. Food. And look about if you want. Just be kind to others or you’ll face some problems. This is where i’ll be leaving you. So be good and have great time bud.” They said with a nod before turning to start walking off without any words back from me.

“Thanks.” I mentioned back with a nod before walking into my room. Without any other thought i walked on down to the backend room with the door suddenly open into a semi lit dome size room with a large what i could guess was a soft comfy dog bed, and a blanket hanging from one end. I couldn’t see much else around the room besides a panel by the doorway i was in. It had normal push buttons instead of touch sensitive ones. So after walking in i clicked the close doors and the door slide shut. The room soon became silent. Everything from the chatter i heard of people in the town, to feeling the wireless signals, to even the space surrounding feeling. The room felt empty and kinda like space itself. It felt so calming somehow to have everything just be silent.

I gave a sigh and turned to slowly walk over to the bed and step in. After pulling the blanket over my body and curling up in a ball. I closed my eyes and slowly let myself drift off to sleep. The first time ever to rest in my supposed real body. Finally to let everything rest from everything. Sleep.



Understanding Self.