The Lost Cyborg by Vaughn Heppner

Author:Vaughn Heppner [Heppner, Vaughn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Military Fiction, Science Fiction, Space, Space Opera, War, Adventure, Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Fantasy, Fiction
Published: 2024-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Becker was having the time of his life. He maneuvered through the small darter in a bathrobe, usually wearing just that—sometimes tied closed, sometimes open to exhibit what he had created through his mental powers and pituitary gland. Honey and the others dressed to please him, provocative combinations indeed.

This was a delight. Becker had envisioned a time in his life like this for as long as he could remember, and now it was really happening.

The only drawback was his physical weakness. The girls could scamper, cavort, and giggle with such exuberance and athleticism that he marveled at them. He was jealous, if you want to know the truth. He could only shuffle along, constrained by his condition. And he always had to be careful because his head was so damn big and heavy. If he bumped it, that could ruin everything.

Becker roved through their minds to make sure about their thoughts and attitudes. He pushed mental levers and froze them in place, enforcing his desires on them.

A small part of Becker balked at this. But that was stupid. This had to be love, right? The girls said they loved him. They felt adoring love for him. Maybe in one tiny sense he’d manufactured that, but when you thought about it, wasn’t that how people had always acted? A man bought a woman a meal, he acted nice, and drove around in a fancy car or big truck, and he lifted weights so he had big muscles. He did all those things to manufacture the love of the woman for him. Was that any different from what he did with his telepathy?

“Come on,” Becker would tell that wee small part of him that Bible thumpers would call a conscience. Becker didn’t like hearing his conscience speak.

At least choose one of them and stick with her, okay? his conscience said.

“No,” Becker would say, “this is my fantasy. I’m doing it the way I want to. Don’t try to tell me what to do, conscience. You’re a pain in the ass. What good are you anyway?”

That would seem to do it. His conscience would simper and crawl away to hide.

The trouble was that Becker couldn’t run with his lovelies. He couldn’t scamper with them in their games. He had to be careful how he held his head. He couldn’t indulge in the activities he had always envisioned in his teenage fantasies and other times.

He wanted to be athletic and change himself into the Herculean man. That would take a lot of effort, though. The darter was hidden in this crevice on the asteroid. Worse, freaking Star Watch ships flittered back and forth. How long until they found the darter?

Becker ordered the girls to keep the darter cloaked at all times. That could last for several weeks. The extensive transformation he envisioned might take longer than that. What if he was halfway through the transformation and Maddox boarded the darter and took his women? What if Maddox put him under real stasis? What if

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