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Dr. Katherine Lilith
Kat looked out at the seascape from her balcony apartment and wondered why she had dreaded this move. It hadn’t been long ago that she had fled the old world with the ACR formula in hand to come to the Matriarchy and begin the work she knew the world demanded of her. She assumed that she would be welcomed with open arms and for a time she was. Her team’s breakthrough with Female to Female genetic combination to create a unique non-cloned embryo without a male proginer was hailed for severing one more link to male dependency. It brought her the liberty and the funding she needed to take the next step. If men were no longer needed, why have them?
Her work in the Male Elevation Conversion Study (MECS) was less well received. It seemed that the women of the Matriarchy enjoyed their slave-boys and were less than enthusiastic about turning them all into slave-girls. The government was happy enough to convert a couple hundred to be used as surrogate breeders for infertile citizens, but other than that, Dr. Lilith was given few subjects to continue her research with.
The war had seemed like an opportunity. Though the Matriarchy maintained official neutrality, even trading with the Empire while the hostilities escalated, Katherine had managed to get embedded with an advisor team attached to FLF regulars who were coordinating with the FRA. On that mission, two amazing things happened.
She was reunited with Commander Gregor, The first man she had ever used her MACR Formula on. The Commander went by the name Grace now and though she still hated Katherine, she hated the Empire more.
The second was meeting Minister Onn of the Rotalia. It was because of Minister Onn that she was here, now, in her new home.
War meant prisoners. With FLF forces moving in and out of Rotalia while they advanced around the Bay coast, the small nation was building holding facilities for Empire captives as fast as it could. At last Dr. Lilith would have the test subject supply she needed to perfect her formula. Minister Onn helped her pick the location along the Eastern shore and Kat set to work funneling her resources from the Matriarchy to this new project.
The cyberattack on the Empire and FEMD had been her resignation letter to the Matriarchy. Issuing the order under authority she didn’t have, she had used a data breech she and Grace had created to send a series of devastating worms and viruses into the Empire government data stream. Before her links were cut, Dr. Lilith witnessed what was already being called the “MeshPuppet Massacre” as hundreds of women under the control of cybernetic implants were freed with the single instruction “Kill your masters”
Just as the chaos in the Empire was cooling off, the chaos in the Matriarchy was about to begin. Katherine’s phone was ringing as she left her office for her helicopter. Her phone blew up with text messages from Matriarchy CyberWar command demanding to know what she thought she was doing. At the Tarmac, her pilot lifted off while Police cars pursued down the runway, lights and sirens.
The Matriarchy would be spending the next few weeks cleaning up the diplomatic mess, but Katherine was done with them.
Today was a new day in her new facility. Her key team members had been relocated one at a time over the past few weeks while the dead weight was left behind. The MECS databanks in her old lab had been wiped and the backups were flown here on the same plane she arrived on.
She was ready.
The sound of rotors made Katherine smile. Her first test subject for this new facility was about to arrive, with her first successful test.
She arrived at the helipad with six armed guards. As the MI-24 set down, the guards shouldered their rifles and kept them trained on the pilot as she climbed out of the cockpit and came around to the sliding side door. She slid it open revealing a hospital gurney. On the gurney was a man strapped down and completely immobilized on a backboard. Blood seeping through a gauze patch over his left eye. His left hand and right thigh were also bandaged.
The Pilot took off her helmet.
Grace, the impossible woman, looked Dr Lilith in the eyes. She took in the six rifles pointed at her.
“Smart!” She said “You know you’re next on my list after him!” She nodded to the man on the stretcher. “But I’m not ready for you yet!” She stepped to the side.
Katherine waved her hand and 2 medics ran to the chopper and retrieved her prize. FEMD Director David Chaste. Katherine looked down at the unconscious man as he rolled by and smiled. Knowing his personality profile, the transition would be harder on him than any subject she had ever worked with. She looked back at Grace. “We don’t need to be enemies Grace!”
“You took my cock away!” Grace replied. “You turned me into THIS and then sent me back to be enslaved by the Empire! I can never forgive you for that!”
Kat pleaded. “Look what you have become because of me! Look at all you have accomplished! Your real enemy is defeated, his castle is in flames! Rolf Greggor NEVER knew the kind of victory that you have achieved!”
“I was never supposed to have to fight this battle!” Grace replied bitterly. “I wasn’t able to do this because you turned me into a woman! I was able to do this inspite of what you had done!”
“Grace!” Kat took a step closer. “What about your girls? They are safe, here with me.”
Grace’s eyes shot up at Katherine’s and then darted over the compound.
“They need their mother, Grace.” Kat said. “Stay here, help us.” She said.
Grace looked at Kat. Rage broke into despair and tears filled her eyes. “I was a man!” She choked a sob “I shouldn’t be a mother! I shouldn’t feel like this!”
“It’s natural Grace.” Kat said. “You felt them grow inside you. The Empire took them from you, never let you see them but they are here, now and you can be with them. Your daughters Grace join us, be their mother.”
“Damn you!” Grace fell to her knees and sobbed. Years of pent up stress breaking through finally. Katherine waved her guards back and took a knee beside her, gently rubbing her back. Grace pulled her hand out of her pocket. It held a small transmitter. A Wire pin dangled from a chain. She used her other hand to push the pin closed, holding the grip shut before handing it to Katherine. “Dead man switch” She said. “Improvised device in the chopper.” She looked over Kat’s shoulder at the guards. “We both took precautions.”
“I know Grace.” Katherine waved over two guards who picked Grace up by the elbows. “These women will take you to an apartment. Your daughters will be brought to you soon.”
“I still hate you!” Grace said. “But,” She looked at the stretcher as it rolled into the elevator across the roof. “It’s time to move on.” She looked at Dr. Lilith “Will he suffer?”
Dr Lilith nodded. “Likely more than he ever thought possible.”
Grace nodded, the tears already drying on her face. “Good”
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