221 Machine Empire Part One

She had only passed through the atmosphere when a few flying vehicles that resembled police cars came into view. "Stop! You are trespassing on the Machine Empire's domain! State your business!"

"Ah, uh… I am here to request a machine body that I can upload a consciousness into." Misaki announced. 

"Hold on." The voice said. 

Misaki hoped things would be easy. She did not want to start a fight if she did not need to. The Machine race was important to her right now. She needed their technology to revive Rika. The last thing she wanted to do was make enemies of them. But if it came down to it and they rejected her request she would not mind going in and stealing a few robotic bodies if need be. 

"My superiors need to know your name." The voice asked.

"Misaki Mitsu, current demon goddess of the demon faction." Misaki gave her title as well in order to maybe put some pressure on the people who were talking to her. 

This seemed to work as the voice said: "Please follow us." 

Misaki nodded and followed the flying vehicle into the city below. Misaki was amazed by the sites she saw. It was as if everything was right out of a cyber pink movie. Tall buildings with neon lights. Steam rising from below. Pipes entangled everything as they wrapped around the tops and bottoms of the buildings. A dense layer of fog hung over the city. Misaki felt the air was heavy and quickly used magic to filter it out. 

Her trip was not long as the police vehicle landed on a platform halfway down a tall building. She landed next to it and to her surprise, a tall robot climbed out and stood next to her. The robot turned to her and said: "Someone will be out soon please wait."

Misaki nodded and found this robot was rather polite. After about five minutes a middle aged man came walking out. He looked completely human except for his eyes. He walked forward and stuck out his hand for Misaki to shake it. "Good day, my name is John Jinkens. I am the governor of this planet, SM-567." 

"Misaki Mitsu, demon goddess, and leader of the Demon Faction. It's a pleasure." Misaki shook the man's hand with a smile.

"I was told you are here for a body to upload a consciousness into?" John asked.

"Yes, I was looking to get a body for someone dear to me. A family member. Something that looked like this." Misaki waved her hand and an image made of magic of a naked Rika appeared in the air. She was not shy about this since she wanted the body to look just like the body Rika had in game if she could.

"Not sure what you mean to be honest. Any chance you can give me a run down on what these bodies can and can not do?" Misaki asked.

"Well, it's like this, for outsiders we can not add any weaponry and to be honest we normally do not allow any outsiders to have any of our technology. But the leader of the Machine Empire has already passed down a decree stating if the leader of the demon faction were to come then to help her as much as possible. As long as no weaponry is involved. 

"So for a normal body, we can make it as real as a human body. Except it won't age and won't die. The body will however be able to reproduce. So having a child is not a problem. There will also be no pain during childbirth since the stomach can open to allow the child to be pulled out without needing to go through natural childbirth. Basically, it would be a human body that is advanced in strength, life span, and unable to die." John explained.

"Then let's go with that. Once it is done I will need to run a scan on it to make sure you did not add anything to it that shouldn't be there." Misaki added. 

John smiled and nodded, "But of course. All systems and parts will be in a detailed manual for you to look at as well. Any repairs can be done by you or you can bring the body back to have it fixed. May I have a recording of the body you want us to make?" 

"Yes here..." Misaki had used Jin's systems to make a holographic disk that held a 3D image of Rika. "Also for uploading, will you be able to use this?" Misaki took out a blank information cube the same as the one Rika's information was saved on and showed it to John.

"Hmm this is unique, is this a spare? If so I would like to run some tests on it so we can create a place for you to manually upload the data when you are ready." John asked.

"Yes, feel free to take it. How long do you think this will all take?" Misaki asked as she handed over the information cube.

"It depends anywhere from a week to a month depending on how quickly we can engineer the port for this information cube." 

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