Chapter 167: Like I Care About Breaking The System To Make A Promise

I opened my eyes to a world that took a minute for my brain to catch up with. It was like being in a world that had been turned inside out. The Dyson sphere was built around a star and the construction of this certain one had taken over three hundred years. Time was nothing to any of the Galactor, the three variants of us are the oldest known biological intelligent species in the universe.

I turned to find Katita looking around and up the rising landscape; unlike a normal planet, we were walking on the inside, and instead of the horizon disappearing, it was more like the combo Halo rings in the last game I had played, EX-ODST or something like that, now that would be an interesting world to be dropped into. Maybe if the world was destroyed, copyrights on all the cool premade already thought up ideas would be void.

As I watched Kadita finally notice me and run to me. Nah, these worlds were better anyways, the Forerunners were dicks and no one wants the Flood, eww. Kadita jumped into my arms and I kissed her while hugging her close; Halo didn't have WAIFU either, hehe!

"Ready to start testing? Liegera and you are matching up well and your movements look good! Now, transform Liegera!"

Kadita smiled and then planted her feet on my chest as she looked into my eyes with a brief smirk. As she pushed off and did a backflip, I was able to watch her body change impossible fast in the air. When Kadita had fallen to the ground, four metallic paws made contact.

"Do I look sexy?"

"If I was a giant metal tiger you would have already beaten me off you!"

"Teehee, that's good! It's just…"

"I know, but as much as it seems like forever, It's not, but you will no longer be the same as your friends and family. You will be the same as me, essentially immortal if someone doesn't kill you. This is a big step Kadita, but these worlds are our, The Galactor's creation. There are other places in the universe that have naturally evolved intelligence."

"You're right, and you will visit me, right?"

That last part hit me like a punch to the gut, and I had to hold myself with extreme focus.

"I will try, you know what my job is, but I will try."

That was a word for word recount of what Star Strider had said to her originally, but that was over seven hundred years ago. Damn! Why was this guy hooking up with these girls and abandoning them? Was this all just to get them to join? 

"No, I won't just try Kadita. I will come find you! Asdfaefwae…"

/What the hell was that mom?

Kadita was looking at me strangely as I tried to put my thoughts back together. I was like I just got my brain tossed into a paint shaker, my thoughts were jumbled, but fuck MainFrame, Stupid game designers never thought that these people would spend the next seven hundred years waiting for someone that might never come find them again.

//MainFrame is trying to stop you from making promises -Tequila.

Nope, fuck that bot.

"I...pr...omise t-th...at I WILL COME BACK...FOR YOU!"

I roared the words out and Kadita was startled, and I was left shaking. My brain was mush like a watermelon dropped from ten stories, just a mess. It didn't matter, I said it, and now things will have to flow differently I think.

//Nothing big will change, but Star Strider will now visit Kadita multiple times over the years -Tequila.

/That is a big change mom

I dropped us out of the VR and met Kadita outside after she had unhooked. She was filled with a smile that filled more than her face; my words must have been the right thing to say because she latched onto my arm and pressed her lips into my shoulder before looking up at me.

"Thank you, I really needed to hear that. I would have done it regardless, but knowing that you will come to visit me at some point helps out a lot. I know that the Dyson Sphere will have some intelligent life on it, but I'll never be able to share the connection that we have with anyone else."

That was true and for the hundredth time, I wished I could make more of myself. Just split me up and pass me out, but that is what the founders planned on doing just in a far more invasive way than what I had just suggested. I am only one Dave, and I can only do what I can, but right now I can show this woman that she is worth more than just what the world values her at. 

I leaned down and kissed the top of her forehead and then started to walk down the hall. It was time to get something to eat now, and even though this was a memory, I still felt the same hunger pangs. It didn't take us long to get there, but when we got there we could hear the sounds of yelling coming through the closed mess hall door.

"Uh-oh, That sounds like Alex and Carly! They are probably arguing about the color of the food again!"

"Are you serious? Was this a problem on the trip over from headquarters?"

"Problem? I guess if you call having to pry Carly's fingers from around Alex's throat, then yes, oh there were many problems!"

"What about a reason, did she give one of those? I know Alex and I can see why she might act that way, but there has to be something else, right?"

"Oh yeah! Bwahaha, Carly thinks Alex looks like her ex. So now she goes two hundred percent on him if he ever gives an opinion, and well…"

"They fight all the time because Alex has a shoe stuck in his mouth permanently that he talks around, great."