Chaotic Renewal

  The Adept: Book One

  Author: D. R. Rosier

  Copyright 2022. This is a work of fiction. Names, Characters, Places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission.

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Afterword:

  About the Author

  Other erotic fantasies by D. R. Rosier:

  Non-erotic Fantasy titles:

  Book Description

  Chapter One

  The vast darkness of space seemed to stare back at me, and it sent a chill down my spine. The stars in the background were incredibly bright pinpoints of light out beyond the heliopause. Even Sol looked tiny from the window of my ship, the Thea. It was just safer that way, considering the experiments I’d been running, which had the potential of destroying the solar system. It was a risk, but things on Earth were getting bad. A little desperation might be called for, and if the ship blew up, well I wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore.

  A second reason for my location was the powers that be on Earth would all kill to get their hands on my ship. I was running experiments with the energy no one else could even detect, much less attempt to control. It was a secret, no one knew I was doing it, and none of the tech in my ship out in the void was back on Earth in any form, physical or data.

  If my experiments met success, I’d be very careful not to let anyone untrustworthy near my ship.

  It’d been two years since the Titan outbreak around the world, and it was rare that supers quickened at less than an s-class or titan class now. The A.I. infamously known around the world as Rose had prevented nuclear war, and she’d organized the heroic titans into teams to take down the rare villainous ones. Oracle had also managed to prevent mass destruction many times, but it happened way too often, without a break. Fortunately, he had the nocturnal maidens to reduce that stress.

  Without both Oracle and Rose on the job, I had no doubt the world would’ve already been destroyed. But it wasn’t enough. It was only a matter of time before the world was destroyed. It seemed every other week there was a world threatening crisis. God forbid anything ever happened to either of them, or the world would end within a week, and last I checked Oracle would eventually grow old and die. I couldn’t let that doom the world.

  A billion years to go back to how it was before aliens Bob’s containment started to fail was too damned long. We’d be lucky to make it another decade.

  The current titans weren’t really the problem, it was just every time a new one was quickened there was a two percent chance that they’d go ballistic on the planet and try to destroy cities, governments, or even countries they hated. So far there were over twenty titans in custody, of the thousand or so that had quickened the last two years.

  A council of five titans had taken over China, after the destruction of the central government which had sparked off that attempted nuclear genocide. Other countries had been taken over as well. Russia, France, Greece, Venezuela, Iraq, Chile, and South Africa were all run by titans. There’d been both good and bad effects from it.

  Maybe I should introduce myself.

  My name is Jonathan Starr, and I am the Adept. I quickened a year ago, and I may be the only mad scientist titan on the planet. I also had conjuration as a second power, which had earned me that name. If I could conceive of something and understand it, I could create it. There were no other limits on my conjuration. Temporary matter of course, so it wasn’t something I did often, most of my devices had been built.

  But it came in handy in a fight.

  I was also quite likely the most intelligent person to ever exist, which was a two-edged sword. So much so that it was hard to relate to others, and I blushed at the antics and stupidity of my old self if I thought on it too long.

  It’d become quickly obvious to me the Earth was doomed, and it was only a matter of time if things didn’t change. The pattern of it was clear to me. Even just slowing down the tide would help, Oracle was being run ragged the last two years, as were the titan teams that Rose assembled. It was just a matter of time before one slipped through the cracks.

  Several had already. The world had thirty-six less cities in it than it did two years ago, and the population was hovering around seven billion again instead of close to eight.

  Point being, the status quo needed to be changed. Even just slowing down the rate of quickening would help tremendously and give the Earth’s superheroes some much needed downtime.

  In the end though, that would only buy us Oracle’s lifetime. But I had plans for that too.

  Regardless, the only answer to prevent the inevitable was both obvious and impossible. For most. My primary goal the last six months has been to figure out how to get the alien energy out of the center of our planet. Once removed, there’d be no more quickening humans at all.

  To do that, I needed to figure out what it was, and then learn how to control it.

  The first part, I was pretty sure I’d already figured out. The shocking part was that the universe was all one piece. There was no subspace, no other dimensions, no multiverse, no layers at all. Science fiction and true science theory flubbed it on that one pretty hard.

  Imagine if you will a symphony of such complexity that it would stun the listener with awe. Now imagine that only one percent of that symphony is in the hearing range of humans. That one percent is still incredibly complex, with endless mysteries to discover, but we can’t even hear the other ninety nine percent.

  That is our universe.

  We can’t see, measure, or extrapolate the other ninety-nine percent with human senses or the current scientific measuring and detecting devices because it is out of phase with the energies and matter of what we can see. At least, that was true, until I’d built devices to scan and measure it.

  Quantum resonance, quantum phasing, are what hides it from us. The rest of the universe is all around us, constantly, but we simply can’t perceive or interact with it at our level of technology and understanding.

  It is all one piece. Gravity is weaker than it should be because the source of it is simply out of phase to our quantum resonance. If it wasn’t, the entire Universe would collapse, but it’s still close enough to our quantum phase to interact weakly by mass’s effects on the space-time fabric. It’s not in another dimensional layer, those simply don’t exist. The universe is one vast and intricate thing, the predicted existence of other dimensions layered on our own is simply a theory, a guess, to explain the unexplainable. It was also wrong.

  Gravity, dark matter, dark energy, all of those are forces that are simply only slightly out of phase with our quantum state, where we can divine the indirect evidence of their existence and that do have a slight impact on our perceived reality and perceptible universe.

  It’s extremely complex, and that simplified explanation and simile of a grand symphony we can only hear a small part of will have to do for the science of our singular universe. Otherwise, this account will be bogged down with endless explanations of interrelated forces and subtle bleeds between phases that makes up the incredibly complex engine the universe truly is.

  The energy at the center of our planet I’ve dubbed creation energy. If it wasn’t naturally out of phase, then the rest of the universe couldn’t exist, or at least it would be a hellish place of constantly twisting reality. I also don’t believe the alien ship used that energy for anything but a power source which gives off meta-energy radiation, which is ultimately responsible for quickening and powering supers through the power of instinct and guided by the subconscious ID. Of course, the alien ship also had technology that could harness and use meta-energy to ultimately power it’s systems.

  If it helps, imagine the creation energy as a fission reaction, and the meta-energy as the steam and water pressure that was ultimately responsible for the creation and conversion into electrical energy. Without the creation energy or fission in a nuclear reactor, creating electricity would be impossible, but both of those energies aren’t directly responsible or turned into directly usable power.

  The ship using meta-energy for power became clear in a long conversation I had with Oracle, based on several visions he had of the shields killing three hundred A class superheroes. The one exception to that, was I believe the creation energy matrix in the core was Bob. An A.I. made of a creation energy matrix that both could control and maintain the ship but also served as the energy core itself.

  Bob had been both the heart and mind of the ship, literally.

  I think that’s why Bob objected so strenuously and said it was impossible for the shuttles to tow the core out of the solar system. Because if that happened the alien ship would’ve been left behind to study which he couldn’t allow. He wouldn’t have been able to self-destruct the ship afterward, because he’d be gone. It would also explain why h
e couldn’t leave the ship or be saved from its destruction. He was the core, and the very crisis that we’d faced.

  I shook my head. I supposed in a way Bob was still with us, tiny pieces of him stuck in the Earth’s core. I hoped that small part of him wasn’t aware, or he was in for a boring two billion years of existence. The idea was kind of horrific actually.

  Another reason for that belief was their containment system setup. A single gravity was enough to hold creation energy in place, but a singularity was required to contain and harness the meta energy radiation. It was a horrible idea and quite inefficient if creation energy powered their systems. It would be much simpler to surround the core in a phase inducing field that changed the quantum phase of the radiation back to the natural universal quantum phase for creation energy. Then it wouldn’t affect anything in our phase, and would be simply sent back where meta-energy was in abundance and completely opposite our phase. It’d be a much better way to do it, and far cheaper power wise to maintain the containment systems.

  Unless of course, they needed that radiation to power their ship and its systems, and creation energy wasn’t what did that at all. They needed to use a singularity containment system because they needed the meta-energy for powering the ship and its systems. It was as simple as that, though granted that was inference, but I was positive I was right.

  Point being, both their unlikely reactor containment setup and my conversation with oracle both had me convinced they used meta-energy to power their ship’s systems. Circumstantial evidence, but extremely strong.

  Lastly for now, I suspect that energy is slightly out of phase even when modified to serve as a power source. It’s why the meta-energy has very little effect outside of being harnessed by human thought, otherwise it doesn’t impact the Earth or world at all. I also suspected if creation energy was truly in perfect phase with us, that even the tiniest amount would’ve caused the Earth’s core to explode.

  All those things and facts guided my experiments to build a creation energy reactor and harness meta-energy. Of which there have been many iterations tried. My ship has almost been destroyed many times, but in each case of critical failure I’ve been able to eject the core and move the ship far enough away. Each failure over the last six months has brought me closer to understanding.

  Currently, the ship was powered by a simple fusion device.

  “The new core is ready, master,” Thea’s soft voice encroached on my wandering thoughts.

  Thea was the name of my ship, and my class three A.I. She was fully self-aware and sentient, and also programmed to serve me. She’d also been destroyed many times, or an iteration of her at any rate. Of course, a full backup was made moments before the test, so she hasn’t lost any memories of experiences, save the experiments failure.

  She didn’t have a human shaped android body, but she was free to move around in the real world with several robotic creations under her command. She organized my life, and she kept it clean. She was also partially independent to pursue her own interests and research, but she was happiest when serving me by her very nature.

  She would become the core and an A.I. of creation energy when the experiment met success. I had to believe it was possible, it was the Earth’s only chance, but I still felt guilty as she jumped into the breach time and time again for me. She’d told me many times she didn’t mind, she was a loyal and close friend, had become so over the last year. She was also brilliant, and one of my very first creations.

  Once my experiment was successful and I’d proved my theories, we could start making a plan to extract the energy from the core of our planet. I had to learn it first, otherwise failure would risk the entire world. That wasn’t an option.

  “Thanks, Thea.”

  I conjured a holographic interface. A small floating sphere using artificial gravity to hold itself still, while projecting an interactive holographic interface above it. It was also connected to the ship’s systems. I took a few moments to verify the settings on the creation core setup number one hundred and fifty-three. It looked good, each time I got a little closer, but there were thousands of variables, any of which could lead to failure if not set perfectly.

  Then I started the diagnostic scan to ensure the core was fabricated correctly and matched the new design down to the molecular level. It’d take two hours for such a detailed scan, and then it would activate.

  I released the conjuration which winked out of existence.

  Thea said, “Inserting quantum core.”

  I sighed, “Thanks, Thea. You did good.”

  The quantum core was her existence. In theory, the creation energy would both eat and become Thea at the same time. In that instant, the creation energy would become her A.I. matrix, and would be in that form until the energy was expended in a trillion years or so. I wasn’t sure what Thea would become, but the word goddess did come to mind, even as she’d be the ship’s power source.

  I imagined she’d have the ability to control reality to a certain extent. Of course, an A.I. was incorruptible. I also imagined that’s why Bob’s protocols were so strictly defined, to power and control the ship alone.

  Only time would tell what she’d be capable of.

  Thea replied, “Thank you, Master. You should go, you haven’t eaten in twenty-four hours, and the Seraph Sorceress will be by for her new suit in thirty minutes.”

  The Seraph Sorceress was a titan from Canada, and the fourth member of team titan for North America, along with Mythic, White Witch, and Supernova. She was a healer, could create powerful projective shields, and had strength, flight, and speed.

  Titan on titan fights tended to be tough on super suits, and I’d made a number of them now that were far more durable than most. My materials technology was quite advanced, even in comparison to my fellow mad scientists. The suit also had an integrated communications suite and holographic HUD from the eye mask that would be projected directly on the retina so others couldn’t see it. Lastly, it would warm her in the cold and cool her in the heat, within reason.

  All three systems were powered by her own body heat.

  Of course, I was smart enough to hide what I was, most thought I was just another mad scientist. Save Oracle of course, who was cognizant of my true abilities. Fortunately, he was trustworthy and held many secrets close to the vest, not just my own.

  He was the only one that knew about the ship and advanced experiments, save myself and Thea. I also believed he hoped I was successful, because I imagine the man was under incredible stress taking the world on his shoulders on an almost daily basis.

  I chuckled, “You saying I need a shower?”

  Thea replied, “It wouldn’t hurt, master. You also need some food and sleep. Even you can’t stay up forever.”

  “Yes, maam.”

  My A.I. could be a nag out of worry when I didn’t take care of myself. Saving the world was kind of important though, and I did push myself too hard at times. It was also hard to sleep, my mind never stopped working, usually on several things at once. It literally took me learning meditations before I could sleep without being totally exhausted and a little loopy after being up for a week.

  Until I’d mastered quieting my mind to sink into sleep, my only other option had been a power dampening bracelet which I didn’t like at all. Besides killing my intellect, it also drained all my vast reserves of meta-energy to create temporary constructs with conjuration.

  The ship had taken months to get out past the heliopause, but once there going back and forth was rather simple. I conjured a teleportation device and went home. It wouldn’t be prudent to be on the ship during the experiment anyway, just in case it failed and there wasn’t time to eject the core. If I ever did lose the ship, the next one I built in secret would have the ability to teleport directly to the void. With all I’d learned over the last six months, it’d be easy enough to get the project back on course within a few days.

  My house was on the beach right outside Eureka, California. A large metropolis that had sprung up between L.A. and San Francisco. My main lab was beneath the house, but I did have a lab in the city proper that I used as a front of sorts for the government. There were no technologies in that lab that would make the U.S. government do anything stupid.