CHAPTER NINE

The Core Worlds. Earth, Luna, Mars and Avalon. Four planets of the twenty-two, yet they held two thirds of the population and more than 80% of the heavy industry.

The Duquesne family had funded the first extrasolar colonization, and had for the last eight-hundred years owned one of the four continents as their own private reserve. That ownership extended to the millions of people living there. Three million hectares of virtual slaves. But, rather than inspiring revolution from the inside, the people living there knew nothing better and didn't resist. From the outside, there was no outrage, in fact the Duquesne's were given awards for their innovation and comprehensive health and cultural systems.

The Scout sat at the bottom of a lake, spotted only by fish. Hayley was aghast at the data pouring out of the Tap. Arranged breeding, the most attractive optioned for brothels and private harems, while a second line was bred for the optimum factory workers. The Baron was currently off planet, but was due back in just a few weeks.

Hayley donned the suit, set for maximum stealth, and crept out for direct observation of the Baron's Residence.

There was nearly a complete lack of security inside the perimeter, a perimeter zone of almost a hundred-kilometer radius.

She stood on a small rise and watched the Baron's harem at play. All naked as they played around the pool. A dozen of the most beautiful people she had ever seen. None artificially enhanced, all without a trace of body hair or tan line. Two heavily muscled males that both stood over two meters tall, massive uncut cocks swaying, two women that were a match for them in height and muscles. Six women in a mixture of hair and skin colors, but all rounded and heavy busted. The last two were short, slim and petite, looking almost like preteens even though the Tap reported them as old as Hayley. Something to cater to every taste it seemed.

Coming to a decision, Hayley pushed her ID into the Residence systems, the house personality would raise no alarms. Then she stood and stripped off the suit and dropped it under a nearby bush. Broadcasting familiarity before her, she marched naked to join the people at the pool.

She walked up to the edge of the pool and slid within. She hadn't swum since before she was exposed to the Spike, but it didn't take her long to remember how.

Popping out of the water, she faced a beautiful Redhead,

"Hi! I'm Mandy." Hayley said effusively.

"Hi Mandy! Haven't seen you here before. I am Kat. The blonde over there is my bestie Jilly. The hunks are Tommy, and the one playing with himself is Dick." She giggled. "Well, really Pat, but everyone calls him Dick. The little ones, the blonde is Em, and..." as each of the ones being introduced greeted her back. Hayley tuned out the rest, did all these have the minds of children? Bred for looks and not for brains it seemed.

Three weeks she played with them, simple games, and frequent sex. To the members of the harem, and to members of the workers, random encounters were as common, and about as meaningful, as taking a breath. Her plan turned from simple vengeance, to a need to care for this entire nation of bioengineered children.

That night the Baron returned with thirty of his family.

It took two days of being passed around before the Baron noticed her.

"Well? Who added you while I was gone? I don't recognize your breed. And pregnant already? We'll fix that and get you a proper lineaged sire." Thrusting himself inside her, outrage fueled the intensity, skin contact showed her how not to leak. By dawn he was hers in entirety.

Using his codes, she accessed the data vault. Finding many isolated recordings. The ones that mattered though, the view from four angles as a beast named Boss Karl slaughtered an innocent farm family, whose only crime had been having a nerdy daughter, that couldn't stay where she belonged on that day five years earlier. Tears flooded her eyes, but the tears dried as she played a referenced vid and saw them forcing the Spike down her throat. The soundtrack driving her rage to cold depths. It took just a second to call up a contact list and recall Boss Karl. His confirmation was almost immediate.

She still couldn't remember that day, but she did recall the body, and as she waited for Karl, she built an older version of it.

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Hayley was seated on a chair, lounging back glass of wine in her hand. The Baron crouching at her feet.

"Hey, Baron Duquesne? What was so urgent you had to issue an emergency recall?" Then he and his men stopped short.

"Hi Boss Karl! Remember me?"

"Umm, no? One naked slut is just like any other."

"Oh Boss. I am so disappointed. Don't you remember the day we met, in a museum of all places. You were shoving something down my throat, and it wasn't your slimy worm."

"What? I would never be caught dead in a museum... It can't be! You are dead!"

"Well, there we are! I am so pleased to make your acquaintance."

"I see four of us with our guns, and just the one of you, with, well... nothing!" giving an evil laugh. "I wonder if you will scream as prettily as your mother and sister did? The old bitch was too stubborn, and cursed me as we held her down and skinned her alive."

Boss Karl turned to his three thugs, all huge and massively muscled.

"Get her, boys!" Missing as Hayley moved, the thug closest to him was flying backwards, spraying blood from his mouth. As Hayley stood where he had been, smiling with her right hand held out, palm forward. Then she spun, giving a back-heel kick into the groin of the next thug, as he bent double her arm blurred and a tiny fist crushed his throat. Karl was clawing for his gun, as the only remaining thug fired a three-round burst. Only to find Hayley standing to his side, peeling the gun from his hand. Her hand shot forward and the pistol's butt crushed the thug's temple.

"Just you and me now Karl. Feel free to scream anytime you want."

"You bitch! I am going to enjoy this!" and he charged Hayley.

The palm slap to his eyes blinded him, as she darted aside and grabbing his left arm, she twisted as she gave a snap kick into the joint, and the arm flopped limp. She leapt into the air while spinning and her heel hit the point of his hip, shattering the joint. As he fell to the ground a hammer-kick shattered his other hip.

She bent down looking at him.

"Feel like screaming yet?" She twisted his remaining good arm and locking the elbow, drove the heel of her hand through it. Finally drawing a scream. As the scream still echoed, she broke his neck.

"Come Baron, baby. We have invites to send."

< Child has your heart been lost to darkness? >

< Don't complain. That was a true Warrior at work! >

< We Anori understood vengeance perfectly. There is no mercy owed such as these! >

< I have no plans to kill more, at least not their bodies. >

Each day two more of the Baron's family became hers. Then she spent three months, as the Baron summoned all his heirs, no matter how distant. Male and Female, they were bound to her. No more of his family would be born. They all issued a renunciation of inheritance, leaving Hayley and her soon to be born child as the only heirs.

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It took twenty years, slowly she sought out and summoned Stewart family members, but eventually wherever there had been a Duquesne there was now a Stewart.

It proved impossible to fix the existing generations, as the auto-docs were prohibited from altering an active human mind, no matter how crippled. But the next generation would be back within normal human ranges for IQ.

The evening that Kallie graduated into the advanced degree program, Haley chose one of ex-harem members, Timmy and had a weeklong fling at the height of her cycle. This time she felt the instant that sperm and egg met.

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