Power of the Cybernetic Soldier

by HeartfireFirebrand

Alpha Memory 1

Author's Note:

This is the first of Tempest's memories you will see, if it's a Tempest memory then it's an Alpha memory, if it's a Thief Memory it will be a Beta Memory. Chapter 3 is coming next.

Tempest wakes up in a massive room easily as large as a city, blue lines carrying energy ran along the dark blue walls, roof and floor. She growled “Where am I?!”

A tall blue female with hardened carapace covering her shoulders, it extended down to cover her arms and chest. A pair of bug wings extended down her back, she spoke in a light tone “Hello I’m Queen Snowy River, Queen of the Aqua Hive it’s a pleasure to meet you?”

Tempest growled as she forced herself to a sitting position “How do I know you are not working with them?!”

Snowy pouted “We are not the bad guys.”

Tempest chuckled “Okay I believe you, just stop pouting at me like that and … What happened to my arm?!” Her left arm was made of a strange blue glowing metal, yet despite the metal composition it had all the flexibility of a normal arm.

Snowy frowned “You didn’t notice but you lost your left arm, we replaced your arm with cybernetic as well as installing cybernetic systems in your body which release you bodies true potential power.”

Tempest looked around “What is this room?”

Snowy said “Well this is the practice room, it’s just to get you I control of your new strength as well as allow us to get an estimate of your strength.” She raised a hand and a glowing pad appeared before them, she tapped a button and a blue tree made out of the same material as the floor appeared before them. Snowy smiled “The material that makes up this room can assume the traits of any any object we desire including the amount of force required to break said object, it’s how we measure strength, punch that as hard as you can and see how strong you are.”

Tempest nodded as she smashed her right fist into the tree causing it to shatter, Snowy smiled “Good job alright now I will continue making stronger and harder things to break until you fail to shatter something.” Snowy pressed another button then a boulder appeared Tempest shattered it with a single punch, then a steel wall which she also shattered.

Tempest grinned “Is that the best you got?!”

Snowy grinned “What you did back there against that horde impressed me and even now you continue to do so, so let’s kick it up a notch this is the elite stuff now.” A huge hill formed in front of her, Snowy blinked as Tempest smashed the hill into dust, she then summoned the Colossal Fortress the largest castle ever built, a replica of a grand fortress that one of her ancestors shattered with a single blow, her eyes widened as Tempest shattered “Your amazing, there is only one more level and that is saved for the Queens of the Hive, still I am willing to give you a chance at it.”

The Grand Mountain formed up taking up the entire space in front of her, the Queen eyed Tempest “I have been able to break this mountain but it took me a fair amount of power.” Tempest grinned slamming her fist into the massive mountain caused it to explode, Snowy’s eyes widened “Impossible.”

She turned to Tempest who grinned “Well looks like we’re done here.”

Snowy shouted after regaining her composure “Stop, we need to do control practice, it would be really bad if you wrecked our beautiful hive.”

Tempest groaned “Fine.”

Snowy giggled “We need you to hold back and if you can manage to not shatter a tree, well you are free to wander the hive.” Tempest nodded and Snowy summoned a tree, Tempest took a deep breath and struck it as lightly as she could only for it to shatter.

Snowy pressed the button, the tree shattered again and again and again. Tempest scowled “Why can’t I do this?”

Snowy placed a hand on her chest with a smile “Focus, control you breathing and your thoughts. Your thoughts are focusing on utterly obliterating you opponent, instead focus on a sparring match, training, practise and restraint.” Tempest took a deep breath and with her mind focused the tree didn’t shatter but it did splinter.

Snowy smiled “Good now let’s see if you can do it without damaging the tree.” After twenty more tries, she able to reliably not shatter the tree with a punch.

Tempest groaned “Finally.”

Snowy smiled “It will be worth it for view, trust me.” Tempest grumbled as they exited the room, as soon as Tempest stepped out her eyes widened as huge crystal pillars slowly bobbed up and down in the air twinkling as they reflected the light of of the crystal clear lake below them, the dark blue walks of the cave only adding to the spectacle. Snowy grinned “I knew you’d like it, come on there’s more to show you.”

Snowy dragged Tempest away, by the time Tempest recovered her wits they were standing before a glowing crystal disk, Tempest asked confused “What does this do?’

Snowy dragged her onto to the disk and a small hologram of a keyboard appeared she pressed a few letters and suddenly a huge crystal matrix materialised around them as they began to move, Snowy smiled “These are transport disks that travel between the floating islands, like everything they a powered by potential or as we call it potentia, it exist the air all around and the physical form of latent potentia, they make us what we are and if you unlock your true potential you can become stronger. We use our tech to unlock our potential.”

Tempest asked “What are you?”

Snowy transformed with a burst of blue flame into a perfect copy of Tempest “You humans called us Changelings in your history but we call ourselves the Fae or sometimes more colloquially known as Faeries.”

Tempest frowned as Snowy turned back to normal “Did you kidnap children?”

Snowy scowled “Only those who would have died with what you called medicine at the time and then replaced them with our own, we gave up our own children to save yours, one who would have died otherwise and then you foolishly kicked out more of your own as you wrongly assumed the bad kids were ours and we took them in as well, many even agreed to be converted into members of our race!”

Tempest’s shoulders slumped “Sorry.”

Snowy sighed “You didn’t know, it’s time for you to see our facilities.” Tempest followed the Queen not knowing what she would truly find down there.