Battle Harem by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Jason and the others spent the next two days inside. Lori was kind enough to donate her repair drones to the housing project, and he diverted them to help with the solar collectors, and the main entrance hatch, which was taking the longest time to build. He had all of the drones stop their construction when it got dark, because he didn’t want to attract any of the mutants, and had Tara call the Rex Wolves inside for the night. He also landed the Explorer, because it’s humming might draw the creatures.

Throughout the evening, before they idled their consciousnesses in sleep mode, he often heard strange shrieks and howls in the distance. Jason had diverted some of the repair drones to print up a bunch of cameras, and he’d deployed them at various locations along the perimeter to keep watch. He’d also put some in the city street that bordered the escape tunnel. These were all passive cameras, able to transmit and record on the visual and thermal bands. He didn’t want to install something active like LIDAR, just in case military drones swept past looking for them—something like LIDAR would readily broadcast their location. He’d set up alerts to trigger whenever motion was detected.

At eight o’clock every night they slept. Jason did, too, trusting in his cameras. He awoke sometimes when an alert triggered; he’d access the feed of the camera in question and spot strange creatures roaming past. Sometimes he wouldn’t see anything at all, as whatever had triggered the alert would be long gone.

Yes, he slept. It was great, being able to fall asleep on command, and without having to worry about tossing and turning for an hour beforehand. Not to mention, he could do it in any position: standing up, seated, whatever. Yep, being a machine wasn’t so bad.

Every morning, they were up at four, and when dawn broke, they’d reactivate the drones to continue building the hatches, and the solar panels.

They spent a lot of time in Jason’s shared VR, especially in the hours before sunlight in the morning. They usually spent a couple of hours in his VR in the evenings, too. Jason had created a bedroom for each of the girls in his mountain home, all on the same floor as his master bedroom. Lori kept trying to sleep in the same room as him, on the floor, but he turned her down because he didn’t want to make the other girls jealous.

The entrance to the cistern got harder to navigate as the main hatch grew higher, until on the third day since building began, none of them could leave at all, not even the Rex Wolves. The dogs sat in the corner, lethargic without their daily dose of sunlight. The mechs plugged themselves into the power cells that were fed by the solar collectors outside, and charged.

And then, near dusk of that third day, construction was complete.

“Well,” Jason said. “That went a little faster than I expected. Considering the downtime the drones had to spend repairing themselves from the wear and tear.

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