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Chapter 41

“Father?"

“Yes, Ares?" Conner said without turning his head as he tapped a screen next to some kind of sleeping pod in front of him.

Ares didn't respond and Conner rolled his eyes before turning around to look at the large black indominus with red eyes.

“It's a simulation… nothing to be nervous about. Your mother and I want to take a break from this chaos and see the mountains again." Conner sighed. He hadn't dared visit the Rocky Mountains because he was afraid to see the state his home might be in. “If you decide to join us in the sim…" Conner pointed to a large sleeping chamber across the room that could fit Ares. “Be my guest." He added before entering the pod and it closed with a sharp hiss.

“Joining active session… Admin Permissions; Granted."

Conner opened his eyes and took a deep breath of the cold Canadian winter air and smiled as he watched his breath dissipate into the below freezing air.

“Just how I remember it." Conner smiled as he felt the cold air against his face and hands. “Negative two… Perfect."(28.4F) Conner added with a broad smile as he turned around and his Raptor R was parked behind him.

He smiled at the truck sitting on forty six inch tires with very aggressive tread meant for sand, mud, rock crawling, snow and ice but mainly snow, mud and ice. The black coloured beadlocks were barely visible against the black rims.

Conner circled his truck and gave a nod of approval when he confirmed that the simulation had gotten the fully built offroad truck's look down perfectly.

“Now… is the horsepower accurate?" Conner muttered to himself and got into the driver's seat and started the truck.

The truck roared to life and Conner grinned. “Ah, the sound of one hundred eighty thousand horses." Conner chuckled as he put the truck in offroad mode and shifted to four high before stomping the accelerator.

“How does he do stuff like this?" Adalinda asked in disbelief as she looked around the snowy mountainous landscape around them.

“I married him for many reasons and his intelligence was one of those reasons. I had made up my mind about wanting to fuck him before I was old enough to even understand the concept of money." Daniella chuckled as she looked up at the sky and let the snow fall onto her snout.

“But it feels so real!" Adalinda said as she continued to marvel at the simulated landscape around them.

The roar of a V8 engine caused both dragons to snap their heads in the direction the noise was coming from.

“He sets the simulation climate to winter so he can use his truck in the weather it was designed for." Daniella chuckled.

“But he's not actually using his truck." Adalinda responded.

“Yes and no. The truck's computer is hooked up to the simulation. All of his vehicles are, currently." Daniella smiled as she waited for the trophy truck on steroids to come into view.

“Oh my." Adalinda chuckled.

“What?" Daniella responded.

“I just noticed that you have jewelry on." Adalinda said as she pointed out Daniella's three gold earrings on each ear and the three gold horns rings she had, one ring on her right horn and two on her left.

“Conner was very thorough at making sure the simulation would remember what a person was wearing in the real world." Daniella said as she raised her right forepaw and gestured to her engagement ring and the gold bracelet on her wrist that was inscribed with the name of her father's clan. She raised her left forepaw after lowering her right to show her wedding ring and bracelet with Conner's family name inscribed on it.

“Still following old Draconic traditions I see." Adalinda chuckled.

“Well Conner doesn't have a clan name so I went with the human equivalent. A clan name is the same as a family name." Daniella said as she watched the blacked out Raptor R drift around a snow covered bend in the road ahead.

The truck rolled up and Conner hopped out. “Feels good to get to experience this landscape again. Shame it's not real." Conner sighed as he walked over to Daniella. “Wanna hop in the truck so we can go for a winter drive?" Conner questioned.

“Sure." Daniella smiled.

“Mind if I join in?" Adalinda questioned.

Conner just gave the large 'ness a look before snapping his fingers and all three of them found themselves inside the truck.

“Why did you have to do that?" Adalinda said after her world stopped spinning from the mind melting experience that that was.

“Oh come on… That was funny." Conner chuckled at the now much smaller dragon in the back seat of his truck.

Adalinda gave a snort before Conner put the truck in gear and floored it.

Conner stood at the edge of a forest clearing and Daniella sat on her haunches next to him. “Even though this is a simulation and we are all laying in pods, it is still nice to watch Ares and Alexandra play in the snow again." Conner sighed.

“But we can still watch them all play together." Daniella stated.

“Yes but you know how much they all loved the snow, there's only so much I can do with an Ark System to recreate nature… I am no God by any means." Conner sighed before smiling as he saw Ares tackle Ajax. Chaos and Alexandra tackled Ares shortly after while Athena and Vulcan were chasing each other's tails not far away.

“Glad that Ares sucked it up and joined us in the sim." Conner chuckled. “Ares and Ajax were the most apprehensive about getting in." Conner rolled his eyes.

“I know it's extremely random but do you remember that executive from that big American delivery company?" Daniella asked with a cock of her head. “The one that used dragons to deliver in major cities?" Daniella added and smiled when she saw the figurative gears turning behind Conner's eyes.

“Who? Markus?" Conner asked with a hint of disdain in his voice as he cocked a dark brown eyebrow and his eyes shifted from vivid green to a reddish green.

“Why did you hunt him down again? It was such a long time ago and the only thing I can remember is him being a Karen and threatening to whip a black feathered and furred drake."

“Borderline slave labour. The company he worked for would bait dragons into thinking they were getting a good deal but hiding things in the contract. It was a whole shit show so the Angel of Death went on another killing spree but in America." Conner chuckled as he remembered the look Markus had given him when he changed his Tek suit so the man could see that he had been hunted down by the Reaper before taking his helmet off so he could see the face of one of the people who had watched that spectacle in that lodge on that ski resort go down.

“He was a giant specist piece of shit!" Daniella remarked with disgust.

“He was also racist too." Conner chuckled.

“Hated everyone who wasn't human and hated everyone who wasn't white… What a fantastic combination." Daniella said sarcastically.

Conner chuckled softly before opening his mouth. “Speaking of remembering the past. That was a fantastic anniversary trip minus the male Karen who got served." Conner chuckled as he patted Daniella's wing shoulder.

“You remember that trend online where people would record from a bridge and a certain song I can't remember the name of would play as some sport or super car would fly by underneath the bridge?"

“It was in 2023 and died off a little before coming back in 2030 when I got myself involved with my own cars." Conner chuckled. “The video of my Dodge Charger ripping by underneath the bridge was the most popular and the second most popular was when we did it together." Conner said with a smile.

“Seeing a Mustang and a Charger side by side before spitting flames was really cool." Daniella said as she leaned into Conner. “It was cool actually getting the shot but seeing how it turned out after was very fulfilling."

“You remember when Ferrari tried to sue me for modifying each of my Ferrari's?" Conner asked with a smirk.

“You recorded a video basically taunting Ferrari to come and take them and had each Ferrari expose their weapons." Daniella said as she rolled her eyes.

“They tried to sue me and threatened to take the cars so I had dared them to try and find where a person who technically didn't exist on paper lived because I masked my presence online and each vehicle was AI piloted and armed to the teeth." Conner chuckled. “They couldn't find me and I also had each of my Ferrari's do burnouts in front of Ferrari headquarters every day for a month. The FBI wouldn't have been able to track down my real address even if they wanted to. I bought that section of the Rockies through Shadow Company and my shipping address was a P.O box that was delivered to an address that had no connection to me."

“Always have been a shit disturber." Daniella chuckled.

“I bought those cars but I signed those documents with a fake identity, I paid for the cars without agreeing to their stupid rules."

“The way society operated was governed by rules that were very easy to twist and bend and I took every opportunity to fuck over scummy corporations." Conner smiled as he stroked the back of Daniella's neck. “It was too easy to live completely off the grid while still having all the benefits of being on grid and having a very active online presence. If someone tried to do any digging to figure out who I was through a video game or social media profile, they would encounter so many loops and digital trails that led to nowhere that it wasn't even funny, I was a digital ghost."

“Didn't the FBI, CIA and Canadian government work together to try and put you under surveillance?"

“Yes, I found out and accessed their servers and taunted them because they couldn't find me at all but I could get into their servers with ease." Conner chuckled. “I exposed a lot of shady top secret files anonymously. There was no evidence that I had done it but they knew."

“You did flip the American and Canadian governments on their heads after the stuff you had exposed."

“Yes I did. Before the Russians got me I was the leader of NATO." Conner said as he continued watching Ares and the other theropods continue playing in the snow.

“Just thought of another incident." Daniella chuckled.

“Oh?" Conner turned to look Daniella in her bright red eyes.

“It happened before you dealt with the North Korean dynasty and obviously before I knew about the Tek suit."

“I'm listening." Conner said as Daniella began describing what she was talking about.

“I get it now." Daniella said as she looked out the car windshield in front of her as the engine of the car rumbled at cruising speed and the supercharger softly whined.

“Get what?" Conner asked without taking his eyes off the dark road ahead. His custom made LED headlights pierced through the light snowfall and darkness. He smiled at the headlight colour selector screen next to his headlight and breaklight kill switches.

“Night driving… It's calming… peaceful." Daniella said softly.

Conner smiled as he scratched his leg with his left hand before leaving it on his leg and continued driving one handed.

Daniella was shaken from her thoughts when she heard the car downshift and Conner was looking forward with a confused and suspicious look on his face.

The car backfired loudly and spat flames as Conner came to a stop around twenty meters from a very suspicious 'accident' that conveniently blocked the entire road.

Conner saw a black car shape stop behind him as people began coming out of the woods. He chuckled as he revved his engine a few times as the people continued getting closer.

“Conner…?" Daniella said nervously as she saw one of the people pull out a gun.

“They can't see through the tint and the car is bulletproof." Conner said confidently as he put the car in rear wheel drive and tapped something on the infotainment system.

“Horsepower Limiter; Offline. Reducing noise suppression… Exhaust Mode; Straight Piped. Warning! Noise levels exceeding two hundred decibels at idle."

Conner gave the car a few revs before picking up his PA System radio. “This is your final warning to back off." Conner said sternly in a menacing voice.

The crowd of shady individuals tapped various weapons on the one way tinted windows.

Conner smirked before switching the car's headlights to red and stomping the accelerator causing the car's front end to jump and the car shook the ground and surrounding forest. Daniella and Conner were safe from the extreme noise hazard as the car had heavy sound dampening inside the engine bay and cabin.

The Charger plowed through the vehicles blocking the road and a black sedan was launched five meters into the air before crashing down as Conner yanked the wheel and did a full one eighty and revved his car a few times

Bullets dinked off of his car uselessly as he put the car into four wheel drive.

Conner put his sunglasses on and switched the lenses into thermal mode as he pulled out his Scar-17 and opened the driver door.

“You will keep your scaly rump planted in that passenger seat missy!" Conner said loudly as he used his driver door as cover.

He returned fire for a few minutes before all thermal signatures went still and cold and he was able to confirm that he had dealt with all of them.

Conner put his battle rifle away before getting in his Charger and killing his headlights and breaklights, he shut off the V8 engine and did a j-turn as he activated night vision on his Tek sunglasses.

Conner called in an anonymous phone call to the police without leaving a single detail besides his identity and Daniella's identity. His phone's number was hidden and police would not be able to trace the call at all.

“No, myself and my dragon girlfriend have left the scene… No, you will not find me or be able to track down a blacked out car with a hybrid engine that has a breaklight and headlight killswitch… And no you will not be able to trace any shell casings from my rifle because I picked up all of my spent brass. Have a good night, miss." Conner said sternly as he ended the call with a button on his steering wheel.

“Don't give me that look, we were absolutely not their first targets and they aimed guns at you." Conner said, still obviously infuriated.

Daniella let out a sigh. “You were and still are so protective of me."

“Look who's talkin'!" Conner said with a laugh.

“True."

Conner let out a sigh as he came out of the simulation.

“Hey Conner…" Daniella gave Conner the look.

“I'd love to but I have to do something right now." Daniella frowned and Conner sighed. “How about in a few hours? Twenty two hundred, ten pm?"

“Fine, but I will be waiting for you." Daniella said in a husky tone, she slowly rolled her hips as she walked away with her tail raised.

Conner chuckled softly before putting his Tek suit on and leaving the large room.

Conner smiled as he approached the Shadow Company Mothership, it was the largest Starship and the second largest spacecraft made by Shadow Company. The largest was a colony ship that was launched from Shadow Base Omega in the year 2532. The colony ship is around three hundred kilometers long while the Mothership is two hundred kilometers long.

Conner touched down on one of the many docking stations for the Mothership to launch it's thousands of Star Fighters. Star Fighters are fighter jets specifically designed for space flight.

He navigated his way through the ship before entering the biggest room on the ship. The room he entered had a ceiling height of three hundred meters and the open space was easily ten square kilometers or almost two thousand five hundred acres.

Conner walked forward into what he knew as a testing chamber for something he had designed but never got to finish. His footsteps echoed across the massive chamber.

“What is the progress?" Conner asked as he approached the side room he knew held the Tek fabricator system for the ship.

“GFR-Zero Four Zero Six Fabrication; ninety five percent complete."

Conner let out a grumble as the lights across his armour flashed the ground around him red periodically.

He waited for two minutes before a message flashed across the top of his heads up display causing him to smile.

“GFR-0406; Ready."

Conner chuckled menacingly as the sound of a massive Elemental Powercore spooling up was heard.

“System; Online… Waiting for Pilot Link." A deep and masculine sounding robotic voice was heard throughout the chamber.

Mechanical noises filled the chamber as something massive began moving in the dark chamber, whirring, humming, thrumming and pulsing noises of something that easily had ten to twenty times the power capability of Conner's Tek suit.

“Initiating Powercore Jump Start."

The lights inside the Mothership flickered as the Ship's Powercore lost fifty percent of its power instantly.

“GFR-Oh Four Oh Six Powercore Power Regeneration; Active… Awaiting Pilot Link." The male robotic voice filled the chamber once more.

“Mothership Powercore; Recharged"

Heavy bipedal metallic thumbing footfalls were heard as the machine Conner had created began moving toward him.

“Detecting nearby Tek suit… Master AI Connection; Established… Awaiting further orders." The massive machine said and Conner began laughing.

“I'm coming for you… King Titan." Conner thundered across the chamber before he Tek jumped onto the machine and entered it.

“Pilot Link; Established… Testing faze; Initiated."

To Be Continued…