Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

Maybe it was because of the little mini rebellion minutes ago or maybe it was just because she offered but Jay reached out and utilized the judgment power which had merged into Evolved Imposing Will. “Do you swear that if allowed to join our fusion that you will always be faithful to those you are fused with upon pain of death?”

      “Wow, that got serious fast. But, yes, I do,” Scarlett replied.

      Jay felt the power settle onto her. He wasn’t sure if it would actually kill her but given that she had to accept it the judgment could likely bypass any defenses she might have.

      She smiled at him and said, “Now do we get to go somewhere private. I hear this part is kinda fun and I didn’t show you what I can do yesterday. I was lowkey for our first time.”

      Jay tried to think back to what their first time had been like. He felt a teensy bit of guilt because nothing really stuck out in his mind, then again he had slept with like a hundred women yesterday even if it was spread out thanks to Tempus Fugit.

      “We don’t have to, I can do this without. Or as I have started saying, we can do it the clothes on or the clothes off way,” Jay said. Then he added, “I don’t even actually know what your power does. Self-Duplication, right? You grow extra arms? Or make a clone of yourself that you can control? Esseme has a power like that where she can create a version of herself that is all PSI energy but can still do a bunch of things without any risk to her.”

      Scarlett suddenly became rather bold and lifted her hand up to run her finger under Jay’s chin. “Oh, you just have to see what I can do. I think the best way to describe it is you can’t really know what it’s like until you experience it.”

      He felt very motivated then and reached out with his PSI to create a tiny opening through the tempus fugit field they were training in. This allowed him to use Psionic Teleportation and in an instant Jay was back in his private chambers with Scarlett. The field closed right behind him as they passed through it. His imagination was running wild as he said, “So, like you can make more of yourself. Can you control them all at the same time? How many can you make at once?”

      Scarlett laughed. “Looks like somebody has a vivid imagination. Let me explain first. I don’t actually make clones or anything like that. I mean sorta, but I don’t think of it like that. What I do is create a whole new person, but that person is an imprint of me at that moment.

      “After the moment of creation though they become their own person. They have all of my memories, abilities, skills, knowledge, and so on, but I don’t control them. They are their own person. I don’t have any special connection with them and the longer that they live the more they become their own person, although none of mine have lived longer than a month here.

      “I could see however if one lived say ten years the two versions might become quite different people. In fact, I’m technically not the Scarlett who was born on Earth, I’m a duplicate of that Scarlett. Although all of her memories are my memories. They make me who I am,” she said.

“So, what happened to the original?” Jay asked.

      “See that is what I am trying to say. I am an original in that I don’t feel like I’m a clone or anything and none of the other versions I have made have felt like they were either. We sometimes even have different opinions or feelings about each other, but again that tends to happen the longer that it has been since the new duplicate came into being.

      “As far as what happened to the quote unquote original, well the same thing that has happened to a bunch of people here. She died. Some monster got her in the dungeon, and I will never know the details because it isn’t like we are the same person. I can’t read my duplicates’ minds or anything like that.”

      Jay suddenly began to worry about how this would interact with the fusion. “So how many of you can you make?”

      “So far I haven’t been able to make more than three of us including me at a time. I don’t know if that will change if I get stronger or not. I just know that seems to be a hard limit now,” Scarlett replied.

      Jay then told her the story of what had happened when he fused with Amelia and she along with Mia and Ava had switched bodies. She laughed as he described some of the oddness of it. Then he got serious and said, “So my concern is two-fold. If I fuse with you will the duplicates you make also be fused? And if I ask you to make duplicates first and then fuse with all of you at the same time, will that mess with your ability?

      “I would think that even if you changed bodies, it wouldn’t matter at least now, because your minds would all essentially be the same now. Not enough new information to make you substantially different. Does that make sense?”

      “I can see that. And I guess I see what your concern is. I don’t know how it will work, cause as you pointed out I don’t know exactly what fusion is. So does this mean I’m disqualified?” Scarlett asked.

      Jay grinned. “Are you kidding. Now my mind is racing about the potential here.” Then he explained to her about intention in the fusion