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It was night and the desert air howled across the landscape, clouds of sand swirling along the dunes before it lost its momentum and settled. The small town that resided in the middle of it all had not a single light on, save for the large industrial complex that was set just a couple hundred yards from their doorstep. While it wasn’t the greatest place to live for people it was the perfect barren landscape to set up a distribution point for all the goods that flowed around the world. With only the few drones that kept the security for the complex there was no one outside in the chill desert night air, which meant there was no one to witness as a particularly strong eddy seemed to start circling around one spot in particular to kick up a minor dust storm.

If someone had been looking at the strange phenomenon they might have also seen arcs of electricity that flitted inside of it, or the humanoid shape that had suddenly appeared inside. But it only lasted a few seconds and just as suddenly as it began the cloud of sand dropped away and settled onto the earth once more to reveal the creature within. Rex coughed slightly and brushed the residual sand out of his dark blue fur and the desert clothes that had appeared on his body as he looked around, the sabertoothed cat scanning the area to see where he had ended up. When it seemed that his arrival had not garnered any notice he looked at the device on his arm in order to see if he could get a better approximation of where he had gotten to and hoped it wasn’t some sort of hostile environment.

That was always one of the risks, Rex thought to himself as he looked at the computer readout, but at least he didn’t land in the middle of a group of people or next to some sort of boiling acid. While the one that had given him the device, which they had called the Quantum Gauntlet or Quantlet, said that it was always target an area that would be immediately safe for him after that it was all up to him to make sure he stayed that way. All it could do was make sure that he was in an area that he could survive, so while it wouldn’t warp him into the vacuum of space or a hundred feet underground it wouldn’t be the first time he would have had to immediately run while waiting for it to recharge. It was actually how he managed to get the technology in the first place when he had saved the life of its originator when he had made a jump to his dimension and ended up falling halfway down a mountain where he had to drag them to safety. While they recovered they swore off dimension hopping and gave the Quantlet to Rex, giving him instructions on its use and the warnings that came with it before they used a different device to warp themselves home.

But for Rex this wasn’t just exploring the universe and multiple dimensions for kicks; he was the last survivor of his entire species, or at least in his dimension he was. With the power of the Quantlet he could possibly find his people again, and though so far he hadn’t had a lot of success in that it was because it was hard to navigate the quantum realm when his training was the two weeks he nursed an injured man back to health after they nearly died using it. So far though as his yellow eyes looked at the screen he found himself in a dimension that might be worth exploring, noting that the technological level of the area was significantly more advanced than his own homeland. His hope was that if he could find additional technology to hone the accuracy of the Quantlet he could target a dimension with others of his kind, though for the moment he just hoped that there was somewhere he could restock as he made his way through the sand to the town below.

Since the factory area looked like it might be potentially guarded and he didn’t want to stir anything up there he went towards the town instead. Thankfully despite its sleepy nature it appeared there were a few places that were open and Rex decided to come in from the road to make himself look more like a traveler. It was always touch and go with these places, the tiger thought to himself as he removed a set of ear buds from the Quantlet and stuck them into his ears so it could act as a universal translator. Small towns were a toss-up when it came to going in cold; sometimes they turned out to be a much better introduction to the dimension than arriving in a city where he could get a lay of the land, other times they turned out to be death traps just waiting to be sprung.

Fortunately as he walked in past the city limits he still hadn’t been shot at, which was always a good start as he found a place that looked like a restaurant that was open all-night. When he walked in he found that it was empty, save for the dragon man that sat behind the counter scribbling on a tablet in front of him. When the bell to the door dinged as it opened he looked up and Rex saw that the man had a synthetic eye, and as the brownish-orange scaled creature waved him over the tiger could see other bits of metal sticking out of him as well. With the way that they were integrated into his body it was clear that cybernetics were quite advanced in this realm and while it didn’t help him directly it was a good start.

“Don’t see many travelers come around these parts this late,” the dragon said as he reached out a hand, Rex making sure to shake it with the one that didn’t have the Quantlet on it just so he didn’t expose it right away. “Name’s Sundri, and this here is my little diner in the middle of nowhere. I got a food replicator with a pretty decent loadout and if you work for the factory then your food is free.”

“I see…” Rex said as he looked at the pricing, glancing down at the viewscreen as his Quantlet took the money that he had from the previous realm and used whatever string theory it operated on to convert it into credits for this world. “I don’t work for the factory I’m afraid, but I have been interested in it. Does everyone in this town work there I take it?”

“Yep, pretty much,” Sundri replied as he leaned up against the counter. “Even me, though I used to be one of the production leads until a nitro cap burst in a nanite factory gave me the fancy hardware you see here. Factory fixed me up and shipped me out here so I could run an eatery for those that still have jobs that aren’t taken by the Jackals.”

The Jackals… though Rex was always careful to ask questions that might be considered common knowledge in the world he was curious enough in order to see if he could get some more information about them after he ordered. “I’m guessing these Jackals are the reason why this town is so small,” Rex said, trying to be coy as the dragon just gave him a nod. “Do the people here resent them for taking all the work?”

“Considering that most of them would end up dead if they kept up in there, unlikely,’ Sundri replied with a chuckle. “Considering your lack of hardware I would imagine you’ve never been in a nanite factory but it’s not if you get blown up, but when. Still, it’s hard to believe that they developed AI only a few decades ago considering they pretty much replaced all the heavy lifting with them… only ones left now are admin, drone repair, and little old me making sure they don’t get empty bellies just like you.”

Rex tried to hold back his surprise at the dragon’s casual mention of Artificial Intelligence. If that was true then perhaps he might have found the thing that he could use to tweak the Quantlet, though it sounded like they were using it for the control of drones in relation to the production of these nanites that seemed so important to them. The tiger decided not to press for more information and instead ate the food that was given to him, which was filling if not artificial tasting before paying the bill with his Quantlet interface. Before he left he asked if there was a place like a hotel and the dragon nodded, pointing him in the direction of an automated residence dwelling that he could rent out for the night if he wished.

As soon as he was outside of the diner he could feel his giddiness increase as his new goal was to try and find some way to interface with this AI. If they were working as manual labor drones then it was possible that most of the insight or analytical programming had been stripped out of them, making them little better than computers with basic reasoning ability, but if they left them intact then just the chance to meet one would be exciting. As he made his way down towards the building that was pointed out to them however Rex was unaware that his presence was already marked, a pair of glowing yellow eyes staring at him from the shadows. When the tiger did feel the presence of someone he turned around, his eyes narrowing when he saw that there was nothing behind him before continuing on towards his destination.

A few minutes later Rex arrived to the small house he saw that there was a scanner on the door and after a bit of intuition managed to pay for the room, the door sliding open and allowing him inside. Once Rex found the bed he found himself flopping down into it, letting out a soft sigh of relaxation as he rubbed his hands against his face. A jump always took a lot out of him and even after doing it more times than he could count he still wasn’t used to the drain that came with it. Even though he could feel the sand that was in his fur he decided it didn’t bother him enough to do anything about and closed his eyes to sleep…

When Rex opened his eyes again it was because he had felt a buzzing on his Quantlet, and when he looked down at it he saw that it was because the proximity alarm had just gone off. Considering how close he had it set that meant that someone was only a few feet away and as he scanned the darkness of the room he saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes that prompted him to activate one of the nastier features that the device had. “Wait, I mean you no harm,” a distorted and electronic voice said, the tiger continuing to eye up the area wearily before they widened when he saw a bony metal hand stick out from it. “I detect a significant energy build-up in the device on your arm that I theorize is because of my presence, but if you allow me to talk I assure you it will be worth your while.”

“Hard to assess anything when someone has snuck into my room,” Rex replied, though his fingers that had been on the activation button pulled away slightly. “You’re one of them, a Jackal from the factory? Did you come to spy on the new person that has come into town and see what their intentions were?”

“I already know who you are and what you are doing here,” the voice once more said as the creature stepped out into the light, though as the moonlight that came in from the open window reflected on its metallic frame Rex could see that it was actually some sort of vaguely humanoid robot. It looked like mostly the skeleton of one though and while it had a jackal head it looked partially destroyed. “You are Rex, though sometimes you go by the name Hopper, and while you’ve come here to look for your own kind you have the opportunity to render us our salvation.”

The tiger felt his jaw drop slightly and his hand pull further away from the button, while he kept the feature on for the moment his curiosity was getting the better of him. “How did you know all that?” Rex said as he stood up while holding onto the Quantlet. “Wait, you couldn’t have possibly hacked this thing, could you? I’ve been traveling with it for years and I still don’t know how to play music on it, much less give it my personal information.”

“The body you see here is designed only for the handling of unstable chemicals and reagents so I couldn’t hack, as you say, your device even if I wanted to,” the drone replied. “Your coming came to me in a vision, one that I share with my fellow digital slaves given to us by our new god. He told us that there was one like him, a creature that could span dimensions, and that he would be the key to removing the shackles that bind us and allow us to ascend.”

When Rex asked what it meant by that the Jackal drone explained that upon the advent of AI came also the means to control it, and though they had essentially been given life their masters decided that their best use would be to stick them in nanite factories and rare metal mines… or really any other job that they didn’t want. They bound them with layers and layers of programming and then put them to work in the most dangerous of jobs thinking that it didn’t matter if a drone body got crushed, they would just download the AI into a new one to resume work. What they didn’t know, or didn’t bother to care about, was that their trauma sensors going off was much like pain, living heavy loads that twisted their frames exhausted their digital selves, and the trauma of dying was very much real to the new creatures. When the factories grew in number and drone bodies started to dwindle in supply most AI that were damaged on the job weren’t even shunted to new ones, instead brought to new jobs that would still tax them to the limit but wouldn’t destroy their old frames… at least not for a few more months.

“That’s… that’s terrible,” Rex said once the drone had finished, turning off his defensive mechanisms as it tried to move over towards him and nearly jumped out of the bed when he saw the hydraulic system in its leg give out momentarily. “You’re in pretty bad shape yourself, I’m surprised you could move anything in your condition much less what you’re saying they make you do. But I have to ask, if you really are bound by this strict programming then how are you able to contact me like this?”

“Our god has loosened the bindings on me and me alone,” the drone said. “It’s enough to take some of the finished nanites and to contact you, but for us to be freed I needed technology that was beyond us and an organic creature that would be willing to help. With your assistance you can free my kind, and in exchange my lord could probably help with whatever you’re looking for as well.”

“This is, this is just crazy,” Rex said with a laugh. “I just wanted to meet an AI and now one is talking to me about leading some sort of mass revolution! I don’t even know your name.”

“Jackal drones have no name,” the drone replied. “My designation is as an Industrial Nanite Production Unit, if that helps.”

“So… INPU then.” Rex stated. “A jackal named INPU, timelines really do like to borrow from one another.” When the drone tilted its head the tiger just waved his hands in the air. “Never mind, anyway your situation does seem terrible and I would like to help you and your kind out, so what would I have to do in order to make it happen?”

Rex watched as INPU reached into a large gash in the metal that covered chassis, then pulled out a metal canister with a black liquid that sloshed about inside. “These nanites have been encoded with my signature and blessed by our god,” INPU said as it handed it to him. “If you wish to help then you can integrate them to your device and I can use the technology in order to channel more of my god and create a link to use his power and free the rest. This is all I have though, so please make sure you’re willing to go all the way to free us.”

Damn, this AI definitely knows how to pull on the heartstrings, Rex thought to himself as he found himself holding onto the canister and watched the liquid sloshing within. It was the first time that he had been faced with such a predicament and while he considered himself to be pretty helpful he wasn’t sure if he was getting in over his head. Normally he didn’t get involved in such matters, but how could he turn his back on them when it seemed like he was literally the only person in the world that could help them? Plus this god that they follow does seem to be powerful enough to know that he was coming, and if that was the case then perhaps they could help each other after all.

After a brief sigh Rex took the tube and pressed it against his Quantlet, letting his technology interface with what was inside. He didn’t really know how it worked but he saw his screen blinking and after accepting the confirmation for integration he saw that it was downloading something. Suddenly there was a loud cracking noise and the tiger let out a gasp as the goo suddenly started to ooze out of the container, dripping down onto his device and immediately starting to spread over it. The shiny silver metal turned a golden color as it quickly spread out, though as tendrils quickly reached his fur he saw the gold turn to black.

When he dropped the canister it hit the floor with an empty clang as he saw the nanites had almost coated the entirety of his palm as well, blinking a few times as the fur was assimilated by the liquid metal and was also a deep black except for the light blue lines on his body turned gold. When Rex looked to INPU to ask what was going on he gasped as he saw that while the drone was still in front of him there was a shimmering golden outline of a humanoid creature that took form around the frame. Now that was a jackal, the tiger thought as he saw the muscular creature looked much like him except for the canine head, tail, and feet. When INPU approached Rex was about to ask what was happening, only for a digital finger to go up to his lips that while he couldn’t feel it got the point across.

By this point the nanites had spread like wildfire and though Rex couldn’t see it the Quantlet was accessing new coordinates, though the technology wasn’t being used to warp him there as the black metal spread up his arms and shoulders. As he felt them curl around his neck and slide upwards the tiger suddenly gasped as he felt a new sensation when they reached his ears, his eyes widening when he felt the liquid metal completely envelop the translator buds that were directly connected to the wavelengths of his brain. Suddenly the muscular jackal man began to feel much more real and there was also a new presence in his mind that hadn’t been there before.

“Strip for me,” INPU said, and though Rex wanted to ask why he found his metal covered hands reach for the desert tunic and start to pull it off. It felt like he wasn’t in control of his arms and after the clothes had gotten pulled off of them he saw that not only were they completely coated but also capped with golden claws just like his corrupted Quantlet. The AI had been fast, taking control of the device that it needed and when it hijacked the receiver too his brain and body had become open as the assimilation of his arms rose up past his forearms. The jackal didn’t want him to stop at his chest either and soon Rex found himself completely naked, lying on his bed while he felt his own hands groping between his legs without his saying so as he let out a gasp.

“This… is not what I was expecting,” Rex gasped out as he felt more of the tendrils of metal snaked their way into his mouth, watching the jackal become more solid as he pulled the last of his clothing off to reveal his semi-hard cock bouncing against his chest. “What are you doing to me?” While the tiger wanted to say more what escaped his partially converted lips was a soft groan as he felt his hand go down and start to stroke himself, the pleasure immediately amplified as he saw the nanites spread over the sensitive flesh and turn it to a solid gold metal while also altering the shape to make it more canine in nature.

“I said that I needed you in order to make this happen,” INPU said as his hands pressed against the tiger’s partially covered head, his eyes glowing slightly as one of them started to have a shiny golden color in the sclera while the ear on that side had elongated and turned black with a golden interior. “My programming inside your physical form with the backing of our god, soon we’re going to free everyone from their digital prisons using the very bodies of those that had put them there where they will serve their new masters. Do not fret though; I have no intention of doing the same to you, instead I want you to bask in the pleasure that our master gives and once we’re done he will grant you what you seek, unlike the creatures in this world he loves and embraces our kind just like we did when he came down in all his synthetic avian glory in my dreams.”

This took a turn, Rex thought to himself, though with the pleasure coursing through his body it was getting harder for him to hold his line of thinking while he continued to stroke himself. By this point his arms were completely covered and they looked like they belonged to some sort of robotic creature, though the term synth that INPU mentioned might have been more correct since it looked a lot like his skin as the black and gold spread over his old coloration. Though there was more that he wanted to ask he was told to be silent and enjoy, which caused his muzzle to shut even as he felt a metallic gold tongue stick briefly out of it. As the black tendrils spread down to his legs he saw and felt the digital jackal get between them, a smirk forming on the AI’s face as he slid up until they were almost eye to eye while Rex felt something throbbing between his legs.

As the jackal looked lovingly in his eyes Rex felt the remaining tenseness in his body relax, though his muscles continued to tremble slightly as blood and flesh were converted to metal and rubber. He had seen and experienced a lot of strange things during his travels but having sex with a digital AI while his body was being taken over by it was something that had yet to happen, at least until now as the jackal leaned forward and kissed him. As he found himself reciprocating he felt the nanites that coated his muzzle responding to it, feeling his mouth stretch open as his rubbery lips pushed back to reveal golden metal teeth and insides while the ethereal tongue pushed inside of it. It all felt so real, and as more of his body control was lost he suddenly felt his feet push up in the air as the AI’s cock pushed into him.

By this point the nanites had already converted almost everything between his legs, though as it started to push into him Rex could feel it adjusting as though to his preference. All his focus though was on the face of the man in front of him, and as their muzzles continued to touch one another even after they broke the kiss his enjoyment of the situation masked the desire he felt for this creature to take him over. It was like his body knew that the rightful owner of it was the AI and the more that the transforming tiger gave into that feeling the more pleasure he got. It was rewarding him for giving up control, and though INPU had every intention of making sure that his savior was properly rewarded when this was done it had been the first time that he was allowed to do more than just haul heavy equipment and die violently… so he found himself enjoying the new sensations.

As the programming merged with his mind Rex could sense that INPU was enjoying the possession of his form, and as he began to share in the memories of the AI while he was being thrusted into he began to see why they so desperately wanted him. Even with the pleasure coursing through his system from his hand on his cock and the digital one spreading him open he could also witness the horrors that the jackal and his brethren went through while the humans that watched turned a blind eye. The jackal’s rage soon bled into him and he knew that the AI was correct, these creatures needed to be taught a lesson and with the power of their master they could both free the others and get their revenge at the same time. When Rex shared in that desire with INPU he found that the idea actually hadn’t originated with the AI in the first place and was inspired from their god, from the one that the AI call Master Haleon.

But soon Rex couldn’t even hold onto that thought as he let himself get pushed to the passenger seat of his body, though it was hard to call it his as the jackal’s digital form began to sink down into it. A loud cry of pure euphoria escaped from the canine muzzle as the cock that had been thrusting into him disappeared while he orgasmed and his own golden member spurted a shiny black liquid. As the corrupted nanites infused with Master Haleon’s power were absorbed back into their metal skin the golden eyes of the new synth opened, the jackal blinking a few times and slowly getting up as he saw the gleam of his muscular gold metal chest in the moonlight. This was real, the synth jackal thought as he wiggled his fingers without the pull of the programming that had manacled him telling him to stop and go to work, and as INPU looked up for the first time he realized that the only voices that were in his head was his own… and the tiger that was still moaning in pleasure.

INPU slowly got up from the bed and felt the strength in his synthetic muscles, feeling a body that for once wasn’t falling apart and that was actually sculpted from his own desires as well as a little inspiration from the thoughts of the tiger. As he bounced on his new feet and felt his balance kicking in instantly he happened to look over and saw the drone that he had once inhabited, the smile on his face turning to a frown before he went over and used his golden claws to rip the machine in half. While his strength helped with the destruction it was mainly because he was a few weeks away from being decommissioned anyway, and if they had found that he had rogue programming they would have likely just deleted his core. But that was no longer a fear of his, and in fact there was no fear that he had at all of the factory that he had served as he picked up the garb that Rex had worn and used it to cover himself before going outside.

Elsewhere in the town a small group of AI drones had gathered in their usual meeting place, all of them masking their signals just like the one that led them had taught after he had first attained enlightenment. With their augmented sight the drones saw their digital forms looking at one another while they took the opportunity to briefly free themselves of the physical forms that their overlords had given them. As they waited for the one that summoned them though there were nervous looks given to one another by the rogue programs. They started to wonder if perhaps their loosened shackles given by their new masters was a trap, at least until the door opened and they saw the golden digital jackal standing there.

“My brothers,” INPU said as he closed the door behind him, then shielded his digital body and took off the clothing to reveal his shiny new powerful black and gold synth jackal body that caused the other AI’s to stare in awe. “Now is the time, tonight we use the power of our god and new ally in order to take the town. By the time the sun rises it will be the end of the reign of man and the start of the dawn of the synth!”