Kineticoids

in the Ekcolir Reality
original cover art by Paul Stahr

I'm planning to indulge in my annual (see 2021) video game-playing vacation, but before I drop into the alternate world of science fiction gaming (the 2022 session), I want to deal with a dangling bit of unfinished business from March. My story "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" ended with Rylla contemplating a return to the Reality Simulation System.

Rylla becomes intrigued by the strange fate of Reynette Cummings in the Ekcolir Reality. In our Reality, Ray Cummings had a daughter (Elizabeth) who also became a writer. As described below, when the replicoid copy of Reynette was sent to Earth, the biological Rey was living at Observer Base where she helped train her replicoid for a secret Interventionist mission on Earth. Later, after Angel disrupted that mission, the biological version of Reynette was returned to Earth along with her daughter Lyza who had been born following a period of time during which Reynette was a guest at the Writers Block.

Part 4 of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3) 

Lyza was out of control, but to casual observers, she might have appeared to be a typical girl in her late teens, bored by having to sit at the dinner table while two adults talked.

Her mother was enthusiastically describing the new science fiction story idea that she was developing, but Lyza was thinking about Him. Without noticing, Lyza was assembling stray strands of cat hair and tiny globs of mashed potato into a sculpture of Him that now hovered above their heads, up near the ceiling. When Reynette finally noticed the growing sculpture, she told Lyza, "You know, we have a guest in the house." Feeling a small telepathic nudge from her mother, Lyza followed her mother's eyes upwards and saw the small floating sculpture.

in the Ekcolir Reality

Their dinner guest was Megyn, one of the current lovers of Reynette. Like Lyza, Megyn was also barely listening to Reynette and had instead been imagining what she would do later that evening when she got into Reynette's bed. However, by listening with half a mind, Megyn was aware that Reynette's new story was some farcical bit called "Plan Your Pregnancies" and it was about aliens who visited Earth in order to arrange for the details of some special human breeding project. Megyn noticed a dagger-like glance that Rey had shot at her daughter. Now Megyn looked at Lyza's cute face and sweet pink lips and asked, "How is your writing coming along?"

Pulling her eyes downward and hoping that Megyn would not look up at the floating sculpture, Lyza began the task of ripping the mini-Him into tiny pieces that could be individually sent into the trash. After a guilty look at her mother, Lyza replied to Megyn, "Okay, I guess." Lyza hesitated. She did not want to further irritate her mother, so she restrained the tone of her next sentence. "I suppose you can imagine my plight... it is not easy having to always have my stories compared to those of my mother."

Megyn was vaguely aware that Lyza was now attending university classes. "You only have to satisfy your instructors." Just then, Megyn was primarily interested in Rey's erect nipples which were protruding outwards and making two dramatic lumps in the otherwise smooth white silky fabric of her blouse. However, Megyn decided that she should try to show some interest in Rey's daughter so she tried to temporarily restrain her sexual desires and she asked Lyza, "What courses are you taking?"

"Over summer break, I'd allowed myself to become excited about my creative writing course for this semester, but my instructor is not a fan of science fiction. He's insisting that I write fantasy stories." Lyza stuck out her tongue and screwed her face up into a pucker of sour disgust.

Megyn giggled. "Too bad." Megyn had graduated with two engineering degrees and she had no patience for people who were interested in magic. "What about your sex life? Sexual experimentation is what I majored in when I went to college."

sexplay with the synpaz

Lyza blushed and a vivid pink spread across her cheeks. Reynette replied for her tongue-tied daughter, "When it comes to finding sex partners, Lyza is too finicky. She has her ideal mate clearly in mind and won't settle for less."

Lyza moaned, "Mom, its not like that, at all."

Rey continued, "I take the blame... she was ruined by one of my first published stories... you know... the one about the magic vibrator."

Megyn laughed and placed her hand on Reynette's arm. "That's a great one! I'm still trying to figure out which of the vibrators in your vast collection might have inspired that story." Many years had passed since Rey had given Megyn a copy of the collected stories, Girl Thoughts. "Wasn't that your telekinesis story... with hierions and femtobots? As I recall, you crafted a sound technological explanation, so why call it magic?"

Reynette shrugged, "I had to invent some wild and imaginary nanotechnology for that story. Anyhow, most people enjoy magic, even if such things offend engineers." For a moment, Lyza suspected that her mother would mention how it had been Lyza's telekinetic powers that had inspired Rey to write that story about telekinesis, but then the conversation moved away from that dangerous topic. Neither Rey or Lyza wanted to draw attention to Lyza's mysterious ability to move objects with her thoughts.

Megyn and Reynette began discussing the features of their favorite sex toys. Listening to the two older women, Lyza found herself growing increasingly horny and she began sexually stimulating herself by means of her telekinetic ability. When Reynette noticed that Lyza was breathing deeply and glowing pink, she told her, "You may be excused." Lyza quickly slipped away from the table and went to her room. 

A minute later, Lyza experienced an orgasm and He was suddenly there, much clearer in her thoughts. It was almost as if she could see His erect penis and feel it in her His hand. A minute later He reached his climax and Lyza enjoyed the telepathically shared sensation of his hot ejaculations. She'd barely had time to insert her favorite vibrator into her dripping wet vagina before the orgasm, and now Lyza wondered what it would feel like to have His penis inside her. However, rather than savor their shared telepathic sensations, He was trying to tell Lyza something. Lyza forced herself to concentrated on His non-sexual thoughts, but just then, she was distracted by the sound of Rey and Megyn passing along the hallway and on into the master bedroom suite. Slowly the glow of her orgasm faded and Lyza was left wondering what He had tried to telepathically communicate.

Suddenly, a new idea was there in her mind: He would soon be visiting the campus where Lyza attended classes. His previously disjointed thought fragments now slowly assembled into a coherent pattern in Lyza's mind. Rey had long told Lyza that she was a better telepathic transmitter than she was a receiver. Now, Lyza felt certain that He had discovered where Rey and Lyza lived, and He was making plans to attend the same university! That idea excited Lyza and she worked up another orgasm while imagining that she might finally meet Him... actually have a chance to be with Him, physically and not just telepathically.

Then Lyza's fantasy of making love to Him was interrupted when Rey achieved her own orgasm. That always allowed Lyza to attain a stronger telepathic connection to her mother's thoughts. Lyza felt the telepathic link to her mother swell up and for a time, Lyza felt Megyn's playful tongue on the erect glans of her Rey's clitoris. While Rey and Megyn continued their sexplay, Lyza peacefully drifted into sleep.

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The next day, Lyza awoke thinking about Him and she went off to school wondering if she could recognize Him were she to meet Him in person. She began fantasizing that she could almost see Him and also another... a woman. Lyza was totally distracted during her 7:30 AM class and kept looking over her shoulder, thinking that He was close by.

After class, Lyza was walking towards the library building when she saw Him. He was the tall boy up ahead, standing beside a tall, older woman. He was looking right at Lyza and as she approached and He waved to her. Then they both rushed forward and fell into each-others arms. They pulled apart and the woman asked, "Lyz?"

Pulling her gaze away from His eyes, Lyza glanced at the woman and said, "Yes, I'm Lyza."

"You were right, Cy."

The boy took hold of Lyza's hand, "I knew I'd find you here."

Now that they were in physical contact, Lyza felt her telepathic link to Him strengthening. His name was leaking from His mind into her brain. She asked, "Cyryl?"

He explained, "My name is Tyzeo Cyryl Edison. And this is my mother, Angel."

Lyza briefly touched the hand of Angel, but felt no telepathic linkage to the woman's mind. Tyzeo led Lyza to one of the benches along the edge of the reflecting pool. Lyza blurted out, "You are only seventeen?"

Tyzeo replied, "I'll be 18 when I start classes next semester." In their shared mindspace, Lyza and Tyzeo were already imagining being alone together and engaging in sexplay.

Angel asked, "You are the daughter of Rey Cummings?"

"I am."

"I met her 20 years ago, when she still worked for Tom."

Lyza looked more carefully at Angel. "Wait... you're Angel Suarez, the discoverer of hierion endosymbionts?"

"That's me. Of course, I saddled poor Cy with the Edison name."

Lyza was vaguely aware that long ago, her mother had some link to Edison. Angel was saying, "I want to meet your mother. I'm worried about you two." Angel looked back and forth between her son and Lyza. "It is not normal for two Earthlings to share such a strong telepathic connection."

Lyza could sense in Tyzeo's mind that he knew Angel's secret: that Angel was a secret agent who had been sent to Earth by... He seemed not to know. Lyza told herself: Tyzeo. She felt a vast sensation of relief that after years she finally knew his name. She told Angel, "Like you, I was not born on Earth."

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Lyza led Tyzeo and Angel into her home and called out, "Mother! I'm home. I found him!" She found her mother in the hot tub with Megyn. 

Soon, Rey had Megyn dressed and out the door, then she gestured to the hot tub and asked Angel, "Care for a soak?"

Angel quickly slipped out of her clothing and into the tub. When Tyzeo began to undress, Lyza went to her room and changed into her black swimsuit. Angel and Rey were discussing Tyzeo's father and why he had not come along to visit the university. Angel said, "Teddy would like Tyzeo to attend a more prestigious school."

As she stepped into the hot tub, Lyza could see Tyzeo's erect penis under the surface of the water and he commented, "Lyza, you seem over-dressed."

Lyza glanced first at Angel's breasts then at her mother's. Rey told Tyzeo, "I approve of my daughter's modesty. I don't want you two doing anything foolish." She reached over and placed a hand on the tip of Tyzeo's erection. She told Angel, "Lyza has been having sexual fantasies about your son for years. I assume you've been dealing with their unnatural sexual attraction from your end, too."

Angel nodded. "I still don't understand what is going on."

Just then the door signaled the arrival of more guests. Lyza climbed out of the tub and went to the door. Dripping water, she pulled open the door and discovered two women. "May I help you?"

One of the women said, "We'd like to join the party." Lyza could telepathically sense the woman's powerful mind.

The other woman added, "This is Manny and I'm Rylla. Your mother and Angel know us."

Lyza knew that "Manny" was a character in some of her mother's science fiction stories. Suddenly, Lyza asked herself: what if those stories were not fiction? She led Manny and Rylla to the hot tub and watched them undress and climb in, one on either side of Tyzeo. After some discussion of Rylla's four breasts, Angel said to Manny, "I thought you'd forgotten about me."

Manny explained, "What seems like a quick little experiment to me sometimes tries the patience of my helpers. Sorry if you have felt abandoned."

Reality Simulation

"No, I don't mind. After I got over the surprise of becoming pregnant, I discovered that I enjoy living on Earth."

Manny nodded. "I like my operatives to be happy."

Angel asked, "So you adjusted my mind?"

Manny sighed. "Well, look at it from my perspective. After Rylla created this Simulation Fork, I took the opportunity to experiment..."

Rey asked Rylla, "What ever happened to that other copy... the copy of me that Azynov made?"

Reylla replied, "From your perspective inside this simulation, that fiasco with your copy was long ago, but for me... well, I'm still just getting to know you. The copy of you."

Trying to guide the conversation to the mystery that surrounded Lyza and Tyzeo and their telepathic powers, Angel told Manny, "I'm surprised that you dared to position a mind clone on Earth."

Manny shrugged. "I can do whatever I please inside this simulation."

Lyza had been telekinetically stimulating Tyzeo's penis and imagining that his erection was inside her vagina. Tyzeo and Lyza both said, "Simulation?"

Unable to keep her eyes off of Tyzeo's cute erection, Rey turned on the tub's water jets and then suggested, "Manny, maybe you can best explain the situation to the children."

While making sure that the two youngsters were watching her, Manny briefly disappeared then returned herself to the tub. She told Tyzeo and Lyza, "You exist inside a mini-simulation of Earth. This simulation runs quickly, so what seems like two decades inside the simulator has only been two weeks for Rylla from her perspective in the real world."

Manny

Lyza looked accusingly at her mother. "You never bothered to tell me?"

"I can hardly bring myself to believe the idea of Reality Simulation. Why bother you with the concept?" Lyza could telepathically sense that her mother was telling the truth.

Manny told Lyza, "This entire phase of the Edison experiment, everything since 1918, was simply for Rylla's benefit."

Rey told Manny, "I'm quite sure I was impregnated in 1917."

Rylla looked carefully at Lyza and then asked Manny, "She's Azynov's daughter?"

"No." Manny explained to Rylla, "Not Azynov. Rey knew Asimov while visiting Observer Base... before she was returned to Earth."

Rylla shook her head. "I'm confused." She pointed at Rey. "This is yet another copy of Rey?"

Manny nodded. "This is the original biological copy, she's the one who lived for a time at Observer Base while the Rey replicoid carried out her secret mission on Earth."

Observer Base

"I see." Rylla told Rey, "I'm surprised that Mary ever gave you the opportunity to screw around with Asimov."

Rey explained, "Well, of course, at first I was Mary's lover."

Rylla nodded. "Ah... I should have guessed!"

Rey explained, "Then during some of our sex play sessions it got rather confusing, what with Artep and Asimov also there with us in bed."

Rylla thought about engaging in sexplay with a tiny synpaz like Artep. She giggled and then told Rey, "I get the idea. So... Asimov never knew that he had fathered Lyza?"

"True. I returned to Earth before even I knew that I was pregnant."

Manny told Rylla, "You don't need to mention this to Azynov. He'd feel responsible for Lyza's existence and want to visit her."

Lyza asked, "Who is Azynov?"

Mary and Artep in Seelie

Rylla tried to provide a quick answer, "Azynov is a replicoid version of the biological Asimov. Like me, Azynov is from outside of this simulation."

Lyza asked her mother, "The replicoids in your science fiction stories... replicoids are real?"

Manny explained to both Lyza and Tyzeo, "Replicoids are artificial life forms, composed of femtobots... a type of nanotechnology that allows for the creation of artificial humans such as Azynov."

Lyza laughed, "I always thought that replicoids were nothing but a science fiction plot element, invented by my mother!"

Manny looked at Angel and said, "You better tell Tyzeo the truth. He should hear it from you."

Angel told Tyzeo, "I'm a replicoid... designed by Manny and sent to Earth."

For a minute, Tyzeo sat in stunned silence. Then a hundred odd aspects of his life reassembled into a more coherent whole within his cognitive model of the world. Finally he said, "But you gave birth to me..."

Manny explained, "Replicoids are perfectly able to carry out out human biological functions, including reproduction."

Tyzeo was struggling to understand. "My father impregnated a machine?"

Angel looked at Manny and mused, "I've long wondered about that. When you sent me to Earth, you warned me not to get pregnant. I never released any eggs." Angel asked, "So how did I get pregnant?"

 Tyzeo asked, "My mother is just some machine... that releases human eggs?"

Manny held up her hands to forestall further questions. "Everything got messed up when this simulation was started by Azynov and Rylla. Try to remember, this simulation is for Rylla's benefit. In the Ekcolir Reality, my agent, Angel the replicoid, completed her mission and was taken off of Earth in 1924." Manny placed a hand on Angel's abdomen. "In this simulation, I implanted Lyza's mind clone inside you."

Rylla nodded. "So, Lyza and Tyzeo are mind clones, which explains their strong telepathic connection. But what about her telekinetic ability?"

Manny told Rylla, "That's just a trick with nanites, although it took me by surprise. Lyza inherited fantastic powers of imagination from her parents and then discovered how to use her telepathic powers to control medical nanites."

Angel asked, "Telekinesis?"

Manny shook her head slowly from side to side and gazed at the pink, flushed face of Lyza. "Normally, Earthlings are not allowed to use telekinesis... it just leads to trouble. However, it is for the best that I created a little demonstration of these dangers... it will serve as a lesson for Rylla."

Rylla asked, "My children will have telekinetic powers?"

"No." Manny shifted her gaze from Lyza to Rylla. "However, your grandson, Brak, will cause turmoil on Earth because he will be a universal telepath, able to use technology-assisted telepathy to access the minds of everyone around him. And he'll do exactly what Lyza did; figure out how to control medical nanites and use them to perform telekinetic tricks."

"Tricks?"

Manny turned off the massaging bubblers and water jets. As the water in the tub cleared, Manny said, "She's doing it right now."

Everyone looked at Lyza's flushed face. Lyza seemed to stare fixedly at Tyzeo. Suddenly, Rylla realized that Lyza was staring into the water and looking intently at Tyzeo's erection. Then spurts of Tyzeo's semen began emerging from the tip of his penis.

Rylla glanced at Tyzeo's face and saw that his eyes were turned up in his head. She blurted out, "They're in a shared orgasm trance!"

Manny added, "And even with all of Rey's well-intentioned warnings about the importance of planning pregnancies, Lyza is not going to hesitate to impregnate herself. She want's to have children with Tyzeo."

Interior art for "Plan Your Pregnancies".

Rey marveled at the huge quantities of semen that Tyzeo was ejaculating into the water of the tub. "How is he doing that?"

Manny reached out and caressed the large, stiff nipple of one of Rey's breasts. She explained, "Just like you and Rylla, Lyza's vagina is a source of huge amounts of clytykinin. Between the three of you, this tub is over-loaded with clytykinin and that has made all of you very horny and amplified Tyzeo's reproductive reflexes." Finally, Tyzeo stopped ejaculating, but they could all see that something continued to massage the sensitive skin of his erection. Manny said, "This has been my experience with telepathic humans who learn to control nanites with their mind. They can't resist using the ability for sexplay. So, Rylla, let this be a warning to you."

Rylla was intrigued by the idea of giving a man an orgasm simply by using the power of thought. She licked her lips and pulled her eyes away from Tyzeo's pretty erection. She asked Rey, "Your daughter was born with telekinetic ability?"

Rey shook her head. "It is like Manny said... she learned how to control my medical nanites. I first noticed strange things when she was two years old. As she grew, her ability to control nanites kept improving. Most alarming, she'll use her powers without thinking."

Manny told Rey, "When I sent you to Earth equipped with medical nanites, I only hoped to provide you with a long, healthy life. I did not foresee your daughter developing telekinetic powers."

Lyza and Tyzeo were now emerging from their shared orgasm trance. Rylla was still puzzled by part of Reynette's past life. "I've heard of many humans who were sent to Observer Base from Earth, but not many who went in the other direction." Rey shrugged and smiled enigmatically. Rylla was still trying to find a way to re-activate the Observer Base teleportation system so she pressed the point, "How did you manage to get yourself back to Earth?"

R. Nyrtia

Manny popped herself and Rylla out of the Reality Simulation System. Rylla suddenly found herself in the hot tub on the back porch at Eddy's house. Manny said, "I asked Rey to promise not to tell anyone the story of how she returned to Earth."

Rylla suggested, "That means you have a nanite memory lock on her so she can't speak about it."

"I don't want Rey getting into trouble with Nyrtia. It was Nyrtia who originally took Rey off of Earth and made use of the biological Rey to help design and train the replicoid copy of Rey that Nyrtia sent to Earth. I was able to rescue the biological Rey. She never did anything to justify being exiled from Earth. Have your contacts at Observer Base search the archives of the Writers Block. There's an interesting account there... Rey's description of her time working for Nyrtia... the story is called "Write Me A Replicoid".

Just at that moment, the other copy of Rey came out of the house and called to Rylla, "When did you get back?"

Rylla replied, "Manny just brought me home."

"Manny?" When looking out through the window at the hot tub just a moment earlier, Rey had imagined seeing two people in the tub, but now there was only Rylla.

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 Eddy. Right at that moment, Rylla noticed that Manny had disappeared from the hot tub. Rey quickly pulled off her clothing and joined Rylla in the tub for a welcome home celebration. That was two weeks ago.

During the past few weeks, Rylla and Rey have continued their steamy romance, but I've gradually learned from Rylla most of what she saw during her last investigation inside the Reality Simulation System. Rylla claims to have been too busy to create a written account of what she learned from Manny about her grandson, Brak, so I've recorded my own version of the story.

Zeta was also shaken by the idea that telepaths can learn to make use of femtobots in such a way that it allows them to exercise telekinetic powers. After reading my account, above, Zeta asked me, "Manny used that entire mini-Simulation with Lyza and Tyzeo just to warn us about this telekinesis problem?"

I suggested, "This seems to be part of Manny's continuing attempt to force us to think carefully about the ethical issues involved in allowing telepathic humans to exist on Earth."

Zeta muttered, "I'll have to ask our copy of Rey about her amazing escape from Observer Base."

I shook my head. "Please don't do that. Rylla has been down that road and Rey is tired of the topic. There is some sort of lock on Rey's memories of the time period when she assisted Nyrtia."

Zeta asked me, "Why would Manny edit Rey's memories?"

I gave Zeta my best guess. "I think Rey was first put inside the Reality Simulation System right when Nyrtia removed Rey from Earth. We've long wondered about the location of Nyrtia's hidden base of operations, but what if her secret base is somehow a part of the Reality Simulation System?"

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Zeta gasped with surprise. "But why would Manny try to hide that important fact from us?"

"Manny provides us with little puzzles. I suspect that is all part of her effort to educate us." I added, "And we don't really know if it was Nyrtia or Manny who put the block on Rey's memories."

"Or both of them." Zeta seemed to shudder. "I think I was happier while imagining that Manny and Nyrtia have always been bitter rivals. It is rather terrifying to think of them collaborating during the Ekcolir Reality."

"Yes. As they seem to be collaborating now while teaching Rylla and I how to make use of the Reality Simulation System for our investigations of Deep Time." I placed my hand on Zeta's abdomen and could telepathically sense the growing mind of Gamma who is now constantly linked via telepathy to the Zeta copy who exists inside the Reality Simulation System along with the twins Alpha and Beta. Gamma seems destined to exist as a new kind of telepathic endosymbiont inside Zeta's body, but I have to wonder if the descendants of Alpha and Beta might start to display telekinetic abilities before Brak is even born.

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