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Chapter 4 by lightsout

Whose DNA is being used?

The Rogue Amazon Aresia

The screen sputters awake, light bleeding through static until the fractured pixels knit themselves into focus. Your chest tightens, each breath thin and uneven, as the profile takes shape—an apparition of light hovering above the console, spectral and commanding, as though torn from the afterlife.

A woman emerges in the glow: beauty carved with ruthless precision, every angle regal yet edged with menace. Her presence radiates strength tempered by shadow, a warning hidden within her poise. Across the display, her name sears into existence in stark, merciless letters: Aresia.

You squeeze your eyes shut, as if denial could erase her, but the memories claw their way forward regardless—fragments of grainy news footage, half-buried headlines, a collage of chaos reassembling itself in your mind. Aresia. The name tolls like a distant bell, familiar yet shrouded in dread. You recall flashes of her infamy: a rogue Amazon whose downfall once gripped the world, plastered across screens and whispered about in viral clips that refused to fade.

Banished from Themyscira—that fabled island of warrior queens—she had emerged remade, her body honed into a weapon of myth: strength to rival gods, speed and resilience enough to stand, however briefly, against titans like Superman and Wonder Woman. But her power was more than flesh and fury. She was a commander, a zealot, a temptress who could bend loyalty as easily as steel.

What lingers most, though, is not her strength but her venom. That consuming hatred—directed at men with a zeal so violent it bordered on the apocalyptic. You remember whispers of her scheme, a purge of every last one, a genocide narrowly averted by the Justice League, though not before cities lay scarred in her wake.

And now… her DNA—harvested, hoarded, treated like a grotesque prize—drives this new cycle.

Not just a copy, but a perfected echo: a Super Clone of Aresia, engineered sharper, stronger, deadlier than the woman who came before.

The thought churns your stomach. Your imagination betrays you with visions—her wrath resurrected, multiplied, perfected. One Aresia had been catastrophic. An army of her would be the end of everything.

The nearest pod hums with a low, insistent vibration, light pulsing in slow, deliberate waves like a heartbeat measured in hours. Frost clings stubbornly to its surface, thin veins of condensation forming and receding in languid patterns as the viscous fluid inside begins to stir, ever so gradually—a cellular awakening that unfolds with the patience of a glacier carving stone.

“No—fuck, no!” The cry tears out of you raw, desperation fraying every syllable. You smash your palms against the console, hands flying in a blur over the projected keys. Abort. Cancel. Shutdown. You spit command after command into the machine, each one deflected with mechanical indifference. A sterile chime echoes like a mocking laugh, followed by a crimson warning flaring across the display: Cycle Irreversible. Core Process Locked.

Your pulse batters your chest, each beat a drum of panic, while sweat burns at the corners of your eyes. Fingers dart across the console, peeling back the interface layer by layer, menus unfurling like the skin of some digital labyrinth. And then—you see it. A hidden thread buried deep in the subprotocols, a faint shimmer of control.

Not termination, but redirection. The Genesis Engine’s safeguards forbid a full abort, yet they leave room for something subtler: programming overrides. Mental conditioning. Power augmentation. Personality matrices. Value alignments.

The options spool out before you, dazzling and terrifying. You could elevate her, turn muscle and sinew into unstoppable machinery—strength beyond measure, skin that no weapon could pierce, speed that blurs into invisibility. Or you could tamper with her mind, sculpting thought itself. Drain the venom, suppress the hate, weave in new loyalties. Compassion. Restraint. Or perhaps something darker, something entirely of your own design.

Scrolling through the gene-coding logs, your eyes snag on a directive buried deep in the lattice of code—and ice floods your veins. It isn’t a protocol you added. It’s part of her very design, fused into the bedrock of her DNA:

Imprint Target Designated—Primary User DNA Signature Detected. Clone Will Bond Upon Awakening.

Your stomach lurches. Your DNA. The system must have scanned you the instant you swiped that card—skin cells smeared on the keys, or some silent bio-sweep humming in the air. However it happened, the result is absolute.

She’s programmed to bind herself to you, an artificial instinct hardwired as unbreakable as blood. Not just recognition, but obsession: loyalty grafted to your face, your voice, your commands. A predator hatched with its hunger rewritten as devotion. And the cruellest irony—her entire being once defined by a searing hatred of men, now **** to anchor itself to the one thing she had learned to despise.

The pod continues its measured hum, the fluid within churning in slow eddies, the embryonic form coalescing cell by cell in a process that will stretch across days—steady, inexorable, a gestation you can monitor but never halt. Steam wisps faintly from the vents, a whisper of progress that promises time, not urgency; time to intervene, to refine.

The process is too far gone now—you can’t stop it. But you can still shape it, hour by hour, adjustment by adjustment, as she forms in that luminous womb.

Hatred could be rewritten. Seduction redirected, its allure turned into something shieldlike, protective. Values spliced into her code like new commandments: loyalty, empathy, restraint. A creature once forged as a scourge against men could be recast into… what? An ally? A sentinel? Or something far more dangerous, something intimately bound to you.

Your hands hover, trembling over the console, then descend in a blur. Commands fire into the system, alterations etched with frantic precision. If you can’t halt the genesis, then you’ll seize it across these coming days, bend it, carve your will into her very essence—before those eyes finally snap open and she claims the right to decide for herself.

You lean into the console, the holographic displays blooming brighter under your touch, casting ethereal blues and greens across your face like underwater light. The interface responds with a soft chime, menus cascading open in layers of translucent panels that float in mid-air, responsive to your gestures. It's intuitive yet overwhelming—a god's dashboard, where every slider, toggle, and dropdown holds the power to rewrite life itself.

At the centre hovers the core module: Super Clone Enhancement Protocol. Aresia's profile anchors it all, her holographic visage rotating slowly beside vital stats—genetic baseline, projected maturation timeline (72 hours remaining, ticking down in real-time), and a wireframe model of her forming body, cells multiplying in a mesmerizing simulation.

You swipe through the tabs, each one unveiling ways to enhance her beyond the original's limits. The system breaks it down into categories, sleek icons pulsing with potential:

Physical Augmentation:

  • Strength Amplification: A slider from 1x (original Amazonian levels—enough to trade blows with Superman) to 10x (god-tier, capable of shattering mountains). Current: 3x. Notes warn of structural instability at higher levels without compensatory durability boosts.

  • Durability Enhancement: Toggle options for regenerative healing (slow, medium, rapid), impact resistance (bulletproof, energy-absorbent, near-invulnerable), and environmental adaptation (**** temperatures, vacuum survival). A preview sim shows her shrugging off explosions that would pulverize steel.

  • Agility and Speed Refinement: Dial up reflexes to precognitive edges, top speeds from supersonic to hypersonic. Integrate acrobatic protocols for seamless combat flow, turning her into a blur of lethal grace.

Ability Integration and Amplification:

  • Core Powers Expansion: Building on her Amazonian gifts, add synthetic markers—flight (via bio-gravitic fields), energy projection (channelled through her hatred, now redirectable), or telepathic influence (amplifying her seductive cunning into mind control). Each comes with risk sliders for mutation probability.

  • Power Programming: Custom scripts for ability triggers—auto-activate under stress, link to emotional states (e.g., rage boosts strength, calm enhances precision). Embed combat templates: melee dominance, ranged ****, or hybrid tactics drawn from archived hero/villain data.

Mental and Behavioural Conditioning:

  • Personality Matrix: A web of interconnected nodes for traits. Drag to suppress "Misandry Core" (her original venom), amplify "Leadership" into benevolent command, or infuse new values like "Protective Devotion" (tied to your imprint). Sliders adjust intensity: from subtle nudges to ironclad overrides.

  • Skill Encoding: Library of downloads—advanced martial arts (Krav Maga, Amazonian styles), strategic genius (chess-master level tactics), or specialized knowledge (hacking, survival, seduction arts). Stack them for a polymath warrior.

-Emotional Dampening/Enhancement: Tune empathy up to foster alliances, dial fear down for unbreakable resolve. A special module for "Imprint Bonding": Already locked to you, but expandable—make it platonic guardianship, fierce loyalty, or something more intimate, with warnings about psychological backlash.

Stabilization and Longevity:

  • Degradation Mitigation: Activate anti-aging protocols, extending lifespan from decades to centuries. Monitor bars for genetic integrity, with auto-corrective infusions.

  • Resilience Boosts: Layer in redundancies—backup organs, neural firewalls against psychic attacks, or adaptive mutations that evolve mid-battle.

Warnings flicker in red overlays: Over-enhancement risks instability—unpredictable powers, thought bleeding amplification, or outright rebellion. But the timeline gives you leeway; the pod's progress bar creeps forward at 12% complete, affording days to iterate, test sims, and refine.

Just how far will you go?

How far and in what Direction?

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