right well so okay


    tea room has its first customer


    teleport anchors work okay


    sync time was only four seconds


    got lucky there because she did not want to be teleported


    kept talking at me


    like


    like


    there''s a word for the way she was


    scared


    but


    notscared


    computer is telling me ''brave''


    thanks computer


    always such a pal when i need to figure out human emotions


    so


    she didn''t run away. didn''t try to put any bullets in me. she did have a gun. same as the other humans. smallbulletgun. she did some talking. four seconds of talking. then the portal under her feet opened and she went to the tea room. and i started breathing again.


    note: teleportal brings lots of dirt and rocks and outside stuff into tea room along with customer. assign cleaning drones.


    maybe it was the same girl as before


    maybe not


    i am not so good with faces


    i can remember them okay


    i just don''t like looking at them


    watched her for a bit in tea room


    she had a biscuit


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    then sat in a corner for a while


    felt a little bit of


    like


    the thing when a human does something that maybe you''d do in a situation


    sitting in a corner usually feels like a good idea to me


    so


    that was


    something


    she didn''t have any tea


    but she looked at the things


    cocoa and hot chocolate and coffee


    she had another biscuit


    then she pressed the big button


    and went out


    and ran


    and


    that was that


    anyway i didn''t find suburbland hive


    suburbland is


    hmm what''s the word


    boring but not terrible


    little houses


    little trees


    some big trees too


    not so many ants around


    just three that i saw


    and killed


    buildings in pretty good shape


    not so wrecked


    i mean my superhammer drones haven''t been near that place


    giant ants don''t really tear stuff to pieces much


    except like


    dirt


    they love that stuff


    digging holes and all that


    eating the dirt


    no poop though


    that''s kind of weird


    where does all that dirt go


    is a giant ant a 100% efficient dirt digesting machine


    or what


    speaking of ants haven''t reported on chitin arm for a while. just became normal i guess. chitin doing well. been adding more gradually. about 40% coverage now on human arm. no real plan for this. just seeing how far i can push it. itchiness is gone. reduced antirejection drug dosage which solved toilet issues. v happy about that. no problems. still no ant hivemind dreams or anything. oh well. chitin is pretty tough. much tougher than squishy human flesh. skin of the future ladies and gentlemen. skin of the future. it is pretty inflexible though. i guess that''s the trade off. so for now i''m leaving joints uncovered. anything that needs to bend. mostly doing upper arm. then like a thinner plating over my lower arm. in case i want to wear a watch or something. don''t want to bulk that area too much. left my human hand alone. not messing with that precious baby. robot hand does okay but i am kind of attached to my human hand. arf arf. little bit of cyborg humour for you there. no charge. peace.


    so anyway


    that''s what''s been going on in my bionetic antmod chitin life


    the latest sitcom to warm your bloodorgan and tickle your laughmuscles


    yeah


    wonder where that girl lives


    are there others


    do they


    well whatever. need to go back to suburbland. find that hive before antsiege. although.


    huh


    what if i just let antsiege happen


    go into defensive mode


    let ants surround biscuit fort. kill any ants that actually attack. stop them if they try to kill my walls. collect antbits. make more weapons and ammo from antbits. to keep killing ants.


    humans will not come near while ants are around


    i could set up a teleport to power plant


    make that my exit


    okay new plan. new plan yes. new plan includes laser shotgun unlock. i like new plan. have to hurry though. set up stuff before ants come knocking. or more humans. suspiciously quiet on the river base human front. no vehicles for a while.


    oh glob


    is this the same thing


    is this going to be


    humansiege


    man what if they both come at the same time


    that''d be a heck of a fight for the last piece of pudding


    well anyway don''t think about that right now


    get out to that power plant


    wonder why no humans are around that place


    as well as no ants


    probably some kind of horrible radiation or something i just failed to detect


    probably end up mutated into a hideous radiation monster


    fingers crossed