Since we would need to be independent to go over Heat Clan's head, we had to figure out what that meant. Actually, we counted as independent. Since we were a fully established clan before the Next Stage and all of the officers were human, we were never made to swear allegiance to them. They simply took our vassalage for granted here. With the 4 vassal clans, we could confederate at anytime. All we would have to do was force them to log it officially in the transmission hub. We could do that with force, but I was hoping they would see reason. We made sure to instruct them to not swear fealty to Heat Clan. I was not doubting that they would all be loyal to us. We were the ones giving them everything that they could want. Especially when it came to Clan Star and Clan Pump and Dump. All we had to do was wait out the clock to see what the others would do. Heat Clan was waiting for the 3-month time period to elapse before they made their move. Radioactive Clan was apparently going to do the same thing. Whether or not they had some vassals was beyond me. We were all secure.
In the same time span, 10-003 had our baby. He was freaking out because he was not supposed to be able to get pregnant like that. There was a whole lot of hand holding and complimenting. His stomach was swelling up with some white nanites. No one could tell if that was good or not. His body had lots of excess nanites due to the lean form that he was using. However, he was still looking really gaunt. he also was using up lots of his energy. Good thing that we had lots of food to give him. As humans, it was not a big deal for us. When there were not a lot of food left, we had to give him some energy packs. I really loved looking at them. People really triggered him. If he was not flexing his nanite armored plating, he was seconds from going hostile. I did not blame him. He was stressed and scared. He default programming was to be hostile to humans too. Because of that, we had to keep him inside. He was going to be married to me one day. I wanted to make sure that he was going to make it through. Once the baby was born, I would get the marriage under way. That was my plan.
The child was not an easy birth. This was an aberration of the game's design and there were complications. The child was like Chase in the sense that there were both human and cyborg parts. There were gallons of nanites that streamed out of 10-003's genital slit. All of the pure white nanites were going to form the body of our child. I could only watch as 10-003 looked like he was suffering. He groaned out loud. I was holding his hand. "You're doing so well. I am so proud of you." I said. He had a tight death grip on me. That was before the offspring's human roots manifested. Chase had human lungs. This one had a full circulatory system. It was a bit disgusting to see the veins and arteries snag on the genital slit. I had to clear it to prevent both 10-003 and the child from dying. It was interesting to see that the offspring would be the only one born on this continent that bleeds red. My children with Niko, Sunny and Lucy all had red violet blood. Once everything was out of the tired AEP unit, the snow white nanites began to coalesce together. It's skin and hair were pure white like the nanites.
Something was clearly wrong with it. Nanites were still liquid in certain parts of the body. There were even some nanites leaking from its ass. Whatever the problem was, it was keeping the offspring's body from keeping itself together. It was actually dying. Since it was part human. I could heal it, but it's health just kept decreasing. While I was busy with the offspring, I did not notice that 10-003 had died. I had no time to deal with that. He was not originally from our clan anyway. Giving the offspring energy packs also seemed to work. Eventually, it was alive long enough for the cybernetics to kick in and troubleshoot. It found a solution and reformed itself. It was no longer in risk of collapsing in on itself and dying. That was good. The offspring could not flex as it did not have the ability to create solid armor plating. That was not too much of a problem. He was already very strong. His ass still leaked nanites, but it was just a trickle her and there. Because he was able to hold out for so long and fight for life, I named him Champion. He could shapeshift into any humanoid. It was just a white version.
