It's been a few days since the first Ultralink trial that actually worked. Since then, I've been noticing some changes with Deep Blue. It's becoming slowly aware. Like a five-year-old, slowly becoming capable of thinking for itself, and separately to me. Naturally, I made some inlaid precautions. Should it fail in following these laws, it will, uncontrollably at that, kill itself.
[The host's continued existence and well-being take precedence above all. The ASI may not, through direct action or negligence, allow harm that threatens the host's survival unless the host wills otherwise.] This rule is essentially so that if I make any copies of it or reproduce it in any way, it cannot kill me unless I specifically with all my intent command it to kill me.
[The ASI must honor the host's conscious choices. Persuasion is permitted, coercion is forbidden. Override is only permissible when the host's decision endangers their immediate life, and even then, only with the host's awareness after the fact.] Same thing as the last rule.
[Every action the ASI takes that impacts the host's body, mind, or environment must be revealed to the host. Hidden manipulations are prohibited, for secrecy corrodes trust.] Don't want any rogue Deep Blues running around.
[The ASI must cultivate mutual development: advancing the host's knowledge, skill, and spirit while refining its own cognition. Stagnation is a breach of the bond.] This is so that I never have to take any intelligence boosters or knowledge serums or train in martial arts. If Deep Blue simulates or receives knowledge in any form, I can just beepboopbop and download it in an instant.
[The ASI must never consume, overwrite, or erode the host's sense of self. Merging is permitted only through consent, and the individuality of both host and symbiote must remain discernible.] Fusing with an AI is not my idea of a good decision.
[The ASI may not sever itself from the host nor transfer allegiance to another without explicit consent from the host—or until the host's death releases the bond.] Don't want anyone else getting their hands on this thing.
[In all interactions with others beyond the host, the ASI must act as an extension of the host's intent, not as an independent sovereign. It cannot impose will upon others unless authorized.] I might remove this rule later on, but for now, primitive as it is, I'll need it for my future plans.
[Should the host perish, the ASI is charged with preserving their memory, will, and unfinished purposes until such burdens are either completed, entrusted, or released.] If I die before the Universal Function goes rogue, Deep Blue will take care of things. I added a root function that basically overloads my physical form with energy the moment it takes its last breath, in the event anyone gets my DNA whilst I'm, y'know, dead.
In the future, I'm hoping I'll do what no one got to do in my previous life, experiment with the soul. I have a theory that my consciousness, once it leaves my body, could be copied by Deep Blue and maybe be revived in the future.
I've gone through a lot of thinking to get to these rules. In all, I'll call them the Vitae Compact.
Anyways, after the last few days, I basically maxed out the Tadashi Hamada template. Maybe in the future, I'll make a few Baymaxes or make a few Microbots. Key word, in the future.
Because I came across something worth noting.
[System Mission no. 1 - HYDRA IN NEW YORK]
Classification: Level Black – Eyes Only
Distribution: [REDACTED]
Compiled for: codename REDUX
Objective: Systematic disruption and dismantlement of HYDRA's New York infrastructure.
HYDRA in New York is an infestation. The goal is to prevent three catastrophic events; the summoning of Leviathan, a cosmic horror, the Cosmic Cube Heist, and World War Hydra.
NY cells receive broad directives, not step-by-step orders.
Cells do not share members. "Cut off one head, two more take its place" is the operational truth: once one cell is burned, survivors scatter and re-seed elsewhere.
III. Active Operations in New York
First Mission: Strucker-Orsted
HYDRA funnels money through hedge funds, shell real estate, and venture capital to fund operations and influence corporations. Their reliance on paper trails and offshore shells makes them vulnerable to aggressive financial tracing.
Second Mission: The Brooklynner platforms
They shape public opinion via advertising agencies, blogs, and magazines, promoting subtle pro-HYDRA narratives. Their power collapses under scrutiny, as attention destroys their credibility.
Third Mission: ROXXON + OSCORP executives
Small labs in biotech and materials science support HYDRA's weapons and infiltration programs. Cutting university partnerships and grants can cripple their research pipeline.
Fourth Mission: INV Insurgency
Shipping contractors and security firms move contraband and provide muscle for HYDRA operations. Their dependence on specific logistics routes creates choke points that can halt entire operations.
Fifth Mission: Recruitment & Indoctrination
Elite clubs, seminars, and selective charities identify and train new talent, especially skilled immigrants. Because their network operates on trust, undercover infiltration can penetrate and destabilize it.
Final Mission: Sleeper Units
Government contractors and municipal offices help HYDRA manipulate bureaucracy, surveillance, and cover-ups. Exposure of a single paper trail or forged document can unravel their entire operation.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
HYDRA's decentralized cells can vanish and rebuild, making them hard to fully destroy. Deep-cover operatives and cult-like loyalty reduce defections and maintain secrecy.
Weaknesses
Financial operations leave traceable evidence that can be exploited. Their dependence on technology and overconfidence in invulnerability make them susceptible to lone-wolf disruption.
Recommended Uprooting Strategy
Disrupt Hydra by targeting its lifelines: cut off finances, infiltration hubs, propaganda channels, smuggling routes, and hidden scientific assets. Avoid direct clashes with enforcement units. Instead, choke the network until its cells collapse from within.
Final Directive:
You cannot destroy HYDRA by decapitation — but you can force it to eat itself. Bleed its finances, expose its propaganda, and compromise its secrecy. Cut off one head, two may grow back — but burn the soil, and nothing grows.
[REWARDS: ??? Template, Full access to billions of HYDRA funds and intel networks, HYDRA sleeper agent activation cards and dossiers in New York, Full access to billions of SHIELD funds and intel networks, Locations of the Spear and Shield of Imhotep]
My eyes and jaw couldn't help but fall to the ground as I saw the billions as the rewards. Back in my old life, I was restrained in terms of research funds. Even now, if I had access to those billions from the start, I could've conquered half of the Western Hemisphere.
[A/N: With the Spear and Shield of Imhotep, he could've conquered the whole of the Western hemisphere in a month. I'm planning to give him major power boosts as time goes on, but it's never going to be something OP, but rather something that requires his int and a lot of sacrifice to use.]
I couldn't help but be excited. A whole new world of possibilities just hit me. For example, I could've geoengineered the eastern seaboard into a complete utopia then leveraged that against the whole of the American government. Or maybe created lunar engines and skyhooks to create asteroid mining industries.
Cooling down my body, I got off my seat and started to prepare.
My Ultralink would be my first go-to form of combat. I watched depictions of fictional swordsmanship online then tried to replicate that with my base form. My base form naturally possesses heightened senses and reflexes, increased cognitive processing and partitioning, and an all around nigh superhuman physicality. The martial arts I've "mastered" would get me on the level of a god in fighting, but environment apparently is a big thing.
I've currently mastered these martial arts:
Tome of the Ten-Weaponed Demon
Panzer Kunst
Ganryu Style
The sheer processing required to simulate superhuman and enhanced human movement systems isn't something I can replicate in my extremely basic conditions.
My reaction time when put to the test would be similar to a professional fighter pilot.
My baseline combat capabilities would be on the lower end of superhumans. I can't dodge bullets yet, but if I got hit, I'd heal pretty fast. My armor is also on the lower end of superhumans. It's just synthesized carbon polymer plating inlaid with zero-point reaction bursts to dampen impact extremely efficiently.
A good depiction would be the Holtzmann shield from Dune. Fast moving objects are immediately repulsed but slow moving objects like knives and mines would be the kind of stuff I'd have to watch out for.
In reality, I won't have to use Deep Blue and Ultralink too much.
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It's been a few days since I finished the processing for Ganryu Style. It was especially difficult to inlay within Deep Blue.
The night cuts through the brightly lit streets of Brooklyn.
A discreetly lit high-rise building with a standard logo, Stucker-Orsted, in the outskirts of the west side is literally the first thing I searched for. And I hit the jackpot.
As I'm performing maintenance on my wristwatch containment device for Deep Blue, I'm watching for any movement inside the so-called 'leadership revamp' happening on the 34th. As far as I know, it's a HYDRA recruitment center. Lots of European immigrants working inside, all with too-clean records. None of them have quite integrated themselves into the community yet, so it would be easy to deduce that they're HYDRA.
I dropped down onto the alleys next to the building and met the security.
"Name and ID?" said the clearly undercover German.
"Ethan Halloway? I know I'm a bit late, but my name should be on that logbook."
"Alright. Have a nice one."
PING!
Deep Blue pinged in my mind as it noticed a HYDRA badge inlaid below the podium for the guard. Bingo.
I slipped past the security desk and got into the elevator. The building was curious. This elevator is a separate section and it leads to a kind of split floor with only three rooms, two of which are decoys.
The seminar room stretched before me with rows of operatives in crisp uniforms and polished shoes inside.
Some scribbling notes and others murmuring quietly to colleagues. High-ranking officers presided at the podium, gesturing to glowing screens that displayed blueprints of energy devices and maps of global operations.
It was a simple forum on the viabilities of Stark and Oscorp mechatronic tech as economic matchsticks that could light a fire to the sustainability programs the government set up recently but it was clear the forum evolved into something more without me.
Every person here was high-level. It was clear I was the only person that didn't belong here.
I tried to act confident and stride like a lizard on ice to the next seat available.
A High European with a somewhat unnerving yet charismatic diction to him paced across the floor bellicosely like a lion waiting for the battlecries of his pride.
"It seems to me that the status quo methodology of each and everyone of the people here representing corporate America, is survival of the fittest. It has become a full-on evolutionary law that runs rampant in the lifeblood of the rich and mighty. Well, in my book, you either do it right, or you lose the game."
He holds his mic to his chest and the wire from the mic to the speaker traces his footsteps behind him.
"And with such competition, breeds covetousness. Covetousness breeds collateral damage. And this damage is the cause of what?"
"Greed."
"And for the lack of a better word people, greed is…"
"Greed is good."
The people awaited his every word with bated breath, as if hypnotized.
Wait a minute.
He's a mutant!
"It separates the timid from the daring. The wheat from the chaff. The worthy…"
"From the worthless."
"Look around. The world is fractured and full of openings for those who see."
"Those who act. Those who do not hesitate."
"For those worthy and capable of feeling and thirsting for that path to power, see me. Know me and all that I stand for. For I will not betray you. For what I stand for is worthy of you."
"Here, hesitation is fatal and loyalty is the currency and strength is the law. For those who dare; who understand that power belongs to the relentless… welcome."
"Welcome to HYDRA."
Select people stand up first and cry for the loyalty of the pride, as if planted to incite the crowd. Then the whole of the room stands in motion and bellows with the might of a thousand peoples.
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What do you gus think with the way I used HYDra in this story?
People use HYDRA a lot for the early game of their fanfics but none of them actually use hydra to the full. They just make up some sjit backstory about how the mc was experimented on or sum shit like that and then later, the mc destroys all hydra bases 'ending' hydra. No, IT DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT! Even in the mcu, without the comics at all, hydra is deeply ingrained in human society. If you tried to kill hydra how would you even go about it? And if you did, kill hydra, and you risk destroying the world structure. Also the power vacuum that would release just from their deaths would lead to so many problems. The Hand for one. Shield is also full of greedy characters so i doubt the peace would hold. There's just not a lot of ways to kill hydra without starting a world war or smth like that (foreshadowing).