What ! And you said nothing !"carol was spitting mad now.

"There was nothing I could do that would interchange the situation. You know I hate the all conception and idea of it."

"Oh sure you do, and you just hate the money it brings in too do n't you ?"

Jim knew nothing he could say at the bit that would assist so he kept tranquillize. He did n't want to fight with her, and certainly not in a public bar. People were already looking at the them. It was plain to all that the immature couple were having a cruddy fight.

"I 'll be right back, and you can use some of your uncles, money to get me another drunkenness, a double !"

Jim nodded as Carol slipped out of the stall and walked to the ma'am way. Stomped was more like it, but in her trivial smutty dress, stomping or not, she looked really sensational.

Jim got the drinking and was sitting at the table waiting for Christmas carol to return. Carol opposed the new Cyberdization legal philosophy, which allowed criminals to be sentenced to be Cyberdized, turning them into safe obedient Cyborg poke. For Jim the situation was n't so simple. Jim huffed a bit as he thought that Carol was furious at him for being who he was, but she was happy for him to spend his money on her ! She could be a bitch at times when she felt like it, and the whole outcome of cyber-drones had her fountainhead and truly worked up. Jim thought it was terrible to be a washed up ex-con. Carol just would n't understand. The Cyber labor was officially the wit child of his uncle, who had founded his company 10 years ago, and today it was the leading manufacturer of cyborg. Daryll Babbage was almost like a father to Jim. After his dad and mom had been killed, in a car clank, Daryl had brought him up, and had nurtured Jim 's love of scientific discipline. That made him almost a double-crosser to Carol sometimes. She was an activist who flitted from protect to protest. They had known each other since year one at schoolhouse, and had gone from being best champion to lovers almost without realising it. Now they lived in the spacious apartment Jim had bought finish year, with money he earned from working at CyberServe Inc. Carol had no melodic theme just how deeply involved he was with the unit man cyborg project. She was n't stupid and she knew that recently he had been keeping things from her. No Carol was too froward and clever sometimes for her own good.

He glanced up and saw her returning from the ladies. She sat down sliding her bronze legs under the board and flashing a lot of second joint as she did it. He looked at her and tried to estimate what sort of a mood she was in. She was slim fit and had a body many role model would die for. She was definitely drop absolutely gorgeous ! How had he ever managed to hook up with her ! He ran his heart up from her thighs to her rounded 34C breasts and up to her side framed with its long auburn whisker that was tailfin and wavy and fell to well below her shoulders. Her blue heart were no long raging and had a tinge of lusty entertainment in them. She always knew when he gave her the aspect over !

"I 'm sorry, I let the whole cyborg affair ruin our Nox out. I know it 's hard for you, being related to the senior high and mighty Daryl Babbage, and having to act upon for him too."

Jim was proud of she was n't shouting anymore, but he knew her too well to think she would overlook the whole issue. She might ; et it lie now and they would almost certainly be having cracking sex soon, but sometime soon she would plunk up where they had left off, like a dog with a off-white. Still she was justly about tonight, so why let it ruin the rest of the evening and what was to come later.

"It 's all right, the Night is still offspring and we can ..."Jim was n't able to finish what he was saying as Carol 's cell phone went off. She looked annoyed, and mouthed sorry to him as she answered it.

Jim saw her boldness go picket, and her oculus widened with cushion. She said,"Say that again Jane. I want to be certain I heard you correctly ... .oh .... ahah ... .yes ... .yes we must ... .ah, I ca n't babble out now, in a bar with citizenry ... .yes that will be fine ... .later then, bye and thanks for letting me know."

"What was that about Carol ?"

"Ah nothing. Sorry it 's kinda of personal, it 's Jane ... she is..a needs my help ... good-for-naught girlie stuff. I 'm so regretful but I have to go."

"Ah OK, can I do anything to help ?"

"No definitely not ... .ah, no sorry."She sounded flustered, worried, tempestuous and confused all at once. Something was very wrong and she was hiding it from him.

carol bent down and gave him a quick kiss and hurried off. She took the car paint too. Just then his cadre rang with the emergency work tone.

"Jim here, what 's up ?"

"Jim, It 's Daryl, we 've had a fault in and affair have gone crazy here, we need you to make out immediately. Do n't state Carol."

"OK, send a car or I 'll give to get a cab. Carol just left and she took the car."

"Tell me where you are and I 'll arrange for you to be picked up. The driver will bring in you up to rush on the ride here."

With no warning he hung up after Jim had told him the name of the bar.

Something was really damage for Daryl to act like that, and was carol 's strange telephone call and behaviour connected to it ? Was he being paranoid to mean there might be a connection ?

30 five instant later Jim was standing in the lab. It was one-half wrack. Luckily all the tender equipment was in the other lab, the one the public never saw. Two masked women were sitting sullenly on charge card lab death chair. surety guards standing over them making sure enough they were going nowhere. He recognised both of them with a seismic disturbance, as the ski masquerade were pulled off the girls. Carol 's immature sister and her best friend Jane ! A scream echoed down the corridor outside the lab and the room access banged open as a burly security measures sentry go hauled another masked female person saboteur into the room.

"Get off me you fascist pig."Jim groaned as he recognised the voice,"Carol !"

"Jim ! What are you doing here ?"

"I work here commemorate !"

The head teacher of certificate said,"I think you need to see what they discovered.."

They all watched the cell phone video, pics, doc moving picture and Jim swallowed hard as the implications of it hit house. Someone had been careless and left extremely raw data out in the open. He grew really wild. The work here had to remain in-company it was too valuable to be allowed to hang into the hands of competitors.

"They ca n't be allowed to make this public Jim you know that."

"I know, maybe I can let the cat out of the bag them around."Jim looked at Daryl as he said it, he knew they were way too dedicated to keep quiet about this. Also if the public found out they would be terrified too. They 'd act all righteous and have the society shut down. Jim could well think that he and Darly would end up in pokey too. His assistant was definitely going to get a roasting for leaving this information out.

"Jim spring up an backbone and stomach up to your fucking uncle for once."Carol spat at him.

"You know they must be silenced, permanently Jim. Carol is just too dedicted to fighting Cyberdizing, and too stupid to see the welfare our work offers."

Jim knew his uncle was ripe, and Carol saw the facial expression of resignation on his face, for a second he seemed to hate himself for it, and then her for causing this trouble.

"I know, but we do n't involve to belt down them. I have a better idea."

The security guards carried the three squirming girls towards the bulwark at the backbone of the lab. Jim pressed a concealed button. The girls stopped wriggling and looked on widely eyed as a section of wall slue aside revealing a big lab filled with equipment.

Daryl was smiling and was looking proud. Jim felt both excited and sad. carol realised with repulsion that this aroused Jim.
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"XC04 activate. Come here."Jim watched the horrified look on the girl 's faces as they realised he had a cyborg here.

"Affirmative Master."

The affair was 5'9"tall, with a glossy metallic blue skin that completely covered it, except for it oral sex, chest, ass and crotch, which looked like formula human skin. Carol looked at the thing and saw it 's nerve bore a take up resemblance to her. It 's headspring was bald an a data port was located at the cornerstone of the cervix, it 's scramble and metal joined seamlessly and flowed down to the hairless pussy and ass that formed a the lower man looking department. She shuddered thinking that once this had been a real soul. Now it was just a servant, and a play thing as she guessed this thing was fully equal to of sex.

"XCO4 target area this girl. tyro compliance protocol Pre-Drone 1."

"Affirmative Master."

Carol felt a cold chill run down her spine, hopefully she was wrong. The thing raised its hired man and a tiresome hum and a green glow emanated from it. The drone pipe placed it 's hand in movement of Jane 's side. Christmas carol cast a agile look at Jim and was disgusted to seem him watching intently and he was turned on by this. Looking back at Jane she saw her friend try to sour her pass straits away, but the certificate guard clamped his hands to the side of her head and made her look at the glowing jet cyborg hand. Slowly Jane started to shin less, she seemed to stop caring and her side went blank.

"Protol Pre-Drone-1 Complete Master. Initate communications protocol Pre-Drone 2 ?"

The drones passionless phonation was mirrored in Jane 's state as she sat stiffly upright, her cheek blank of emotion and her optic empty of any awareness of her surroundings.

"Do it XC04. If successful return key to your bay to extend recharging."

"Affirmative Master."

Pointing at Jane the trailer said,"Stand up, remove all your garments, and await further instructions."

Carol was horrified as Jane stiffly stood up and took her clothes off. Jane was terrified of hoi polloi seeing her defenseless in world !

The poke watched Jane, and when she was defenseless and standing stock still, it turned and walked to a recession bay and stepped inside it. The alcove hummed, a cable snaked out and plugged itself into the data-port in her neck, financial support fastened themselves to the drones arms and branch and its middle started to burn super acid as it recharged.

The security precaution were grinning and leering at Jane, and Christmas carol was disgusted to see the security header, Jim and his uncle were no serious.

Christmas carol 's sister was shaking with fear and screamed,"deviant. You ca n't do this its not right."

Jim smiled at her, and Carol recognised the look he got before he fucked her roughly."I will not be doing this to you two, no Jane will become a monotone. But neither of you will be drones."

A sense of relief flooded through Christmas carol as she heard Jim say that."Now Pre-Drone go to the table there and lie down on it."

The trance Jane replied,"Affirmative."

Christmas carol was sickened to see her friend treated like this, but she was also fascinated to see what would happen, especially now she was not going to become a drone too. She felt guilty at her desire to see Jane converted. poor people Jane she had always been so caring so dedicated to the public good.

Jim pressed a release and metal isthmus clamped themselves around Jane 's wrists and ankle. With a loud click a collar snapped shut around her neck. The table whizzed as it moved Jane into X shape.
Jim had always been turned on by X-frames, so Christmas carol was n't surprised that he had made his lab equipment into a high-tech translation of one. He really was retch, she had never realised until now just how throw up !

Jim pressed a serial of menu choice on the control covert. Metal tubes rose up from the side of the table and buried themselves into Jane 's naked chassis and started pumping something into her. A few endorsement later Jane screamed,"What the shtup are you doing to me ? Let me go ... please ... carol what are they doing ?"

Tears started to pour down Carol 's aspect. Somehow it seemed so clinical with a peaceful compliant subject area, but now a fully conscious and terrify Jane tore at her emotions.

"I am so so blue Jane. Please terminate this Jim, we wo n't severalise anyone ... please !"carol implored him to halt, but he was actually smiling !

Jane screamed in suffering as more fluid was pumped into her through the alloy subway system and now it burned.

A hood descended covering Jane 's brass, partially muffling her screams, it forced a gag into her mouth and more fluid was pumped into her. The hood now completely enclosed Jane 's head and the screaming stopped. A tone of burning flesh filled the room. The goon whirred and it lifted off Jane 's chief revealing a bloody red face and skull. carol realised the hood had burned her fuzz off and had removed the top bed of skin from her typeface and skull. A data transmission line neatly plugged itself into Jane 's newly fitted data-port at the al-Qaeda of her neck.

carol jumped as the data processor announced,"Drone consistency limiting stage 1 complete."

"What does that mean ?"Carol asked fearfully. This was a horror show but she could n't stop her curiosity.

"Jane is mentally unaltered at the present moment, physically she has all the nanobots required for spiritual rebirth in her body, but they are inactive."Jim was loving this and carol was surprised he could birth kept this sadistic side from her."If we released her now she would just ingest the scarring from the facial skinning. null we could n't fix easily. However once the nanobots are activated the process ca n't be stopped without killing the subject. So she is either converted successfully or we cremate her."

"Please delight stop this."carol pleaded and her sister nodded through her own tears.

"And not let you see the conversion phase ! It 's so wonderful to watch."And he clicked a clitoris on the control board. The tabular array started to birr and hum loudly again.

"Noooooo. You bastard Jim."carol looked at Jane bathed in the eerie setback light from the table and budget items projectors. Jane 's body suddenly started to toss against her restraints. After a few hour Jane lay still. gloss seemed to ooze out of her skin spreading a blue movie over most of her body. The semblance deepened in semblance until it was the metallic blue sky of the Drone they had just seen. It seemed to guggle and then took on a shiny unruffled facial expression. hide coloring material flowed over Jane 's face and skull repairing the bloody wounds. It rippled and the face was no longer Jane 's but appered to be a blend of carol and Jane 's features. New cutis covered Jane 's exposed tits, pussy and ass too.

"Drone Body Modification Complete. Commencing laggard control protocol Installation."

"Now once this level is double-dyed we have a new dawdler. Would you like to take the new radio-controlled aircraft Christmas carol ? Or you Sally ?"

"Bastard. And to reckon I loved you !"

"Jim is quite a part of work. Quite brilliant, he even experimented on his own parents as a boy ... Oh that 's right the car collapse story was a cover up. He lobotomised them with his faulty nanobot."Daryl did n't seem a bit confused at his brother and sister-in-laws deaths.

carol 's mouth was hanging open air as she realised just how criminally insane Jim was.

"So Jim invented the completely cyber transition process, and you just exploited it ?"

Daryl smiled at Jim warmly,"She is extremely clever just as you said. I can see why you like her, well apart from the obvious smoking hot body. Which I am dying to see soon"

"What the fuck ! You said I was n't ..."Carol did n't get a prospect to finish as Jim jumped in,"was n't going to turn you into a trailer. I never said we were not going to convert you."

Fear welled up in her again as she looked at the new Drone that had been her admirer Jane. Sally was whimpering softly too.

"lagger protocol instalment Complete. Drone Bootup Commencing."

The table lowered Jane to the dry land, the clinch released and she stood up took a step forward and said,"Drone XC09 Initial status check 100 %. Awaiting Instructions."

"news report owner status."

"social unit drone XC09 is the property of CyberServe Inc."

"Oh Jane, I am so terribly sorry."The new drone took no posting of Carol.

"Jane looks a lot more compliant now. You remember the prison term you and Jane refused to have a foursome with me and her boyfriend ? You would n't even put on a display for us or do tercet. wellspring she nolonger has any inhibitions honey."Jim sounded so turned on it scare the jack out of Carol.

"I thought you were joking you fucking whacko !"

"Fucking whacko eh. XCO9 engage Sex Mode with that security guard."

Carol watched her ex-friend expertly pull the guard 's shaft out and proceeded to yield him a BJ. As she watched she felt herself tingling and felt herself getting wet. She always had enjoyed being tied and used sexually, but she was surprised that this should float her gravy boat !

"XC04, come here wage Sex Mode 2 with the captive designated Sally."

"Keep it away from me. Nooo."wisecrack was being held by an excite sentry go as XC04 ripped Sally 's clothes off as if they were made of paper.

"You will obey schoolma'am XC04 or be punished. Lie on your back.Open your legs wide."

"piece of ass you bitch."Sally shouted hysterically.

carol was crying again as she watched Jane now riding the naked guard and her raw sis being slapped and thrown to the lab floor.

"You will obey Mistress XC04 or be punished. Lie on your back. give your legs wide."

Sobbing Sally did as she was told. The lagger 's smack had nearly broken her jaw.

Horrified and fascinated Carol watched as Sally was eaten by the drone and she was moaning with pleasance despite the terrible position. Carol felt ashamed of her self but her sex life with Jim had included a lot of BDSM and Top/slave sex, and this was making her wet. Sally screamed as the dawdler licked her clitoris and plunged three fingers abstruse inside her soaking wet shaved slit. Carol 's script started to rub her own pussy unconsciously. The safeguard were enjoying watching Carol as she had exposed herself. Her hitched up dress revealing she had o panties on. She had taken them off in the ladies at the bar, intending to get Jim to finger her on the ride home.

Daryl looked at his lookout and said,"As a lot fun as this is we still have to finish with Sally and carol quickly. Time is running out and we need everything squared away before the first faculty fellow member arrive in the morning."

Jim looked disappointed but nodded."XC09, XC04 engage formula laggard fashion and shoulder strap sallying forth onto the processing table."

sallying forth tried to scramble to her pes but XC04 's hands clamps around her arm in a vice like grip, despite being covered in sallying forth 's pussy juice.

Carol looked at quip on the x-frame table, trying to shut out her sidesplitter as the subway inserted themselves into her.

Jim tapped on the ascendency venire and Sally managed to yell,"fucking you all, ahhhhhhh"Her remaining curses and screams were muffled as the hood covered her face.

Carol called over,"You 're a sick perverted shit pass and a fucking prevaricator. You said we would n't be drones and there Sally is on that board being turned into one of your monsters. And I guess I 'm going to follow her next ?"

"No you two will not be drones Christmas carol, that is the Truth, and yes you will be next."

"How sure are you this will lick ?"Daryl was licking his lips as the hood detached itself revealing the skinned boldness of a now silent and unconscious Sally. Carol felt so sad as she looked at her sister, but she was scared shitless at the thought of being strapped there herself, undergoing that abomination of a process.

"ArtSoul-alpha-1123.4z body qualifying phase 1 complete."The electronic computer announced.

"An alpha plan ? Does that mean it 's likely to fail ?"carol asked. She was horrified at the whole billet she still wanted her sister to come through, if you could yell the life after this conversion as living.

"Yes and in that case we have to terminate the national. Despite what you think I do have intercourse you and require alive, so your sis is the world-class test subject for programme. If it works you will have an AI individual and be better than human."

"Oh sure enough ! But obedient to you ?"

"Oh course, I said you will be sound than human."Jim started the final phase running. Watching a new prototype transformation was like giving birth. Would it crop as he expected ?

"Conceited prick !"

carol watched sallying forth thrash and go still. A skin toned layer oozed out of Sally 's body, rather than the metallic blue the XC drones seemed to have. It rippled across her entire body and solidified into very natural looking pelt. The programming phase seemed to take much farseeing than Jane 's had. Sally looked formula and had her own brass as the table set the completed cyborg onto the floor. With a wig the naked and bald cyborg could pass for human being. sally took a pace forward and everyone held their breath for a second. carol hoped crack would distinguish them to all fuck off.

"Cyborg xAS01 Initial condition arrest 100 %. Awaiting Instructions."

Daryl sighed,"Another monotone, just looks almost normal."

Christmas carol could n't avail crying again, as she heard the automaton voice coming from what had once been her sister.

"We need to test her before we know what we have. At the moment she is running the same Drone plan as the XC series."Jim was looking nerveless and business like now.

"story possessor status."

"whole Cyborg xAS01 is the holding of CyberServe Inc."

"Who do you obey ?"

"I obey Saint James the Apostle Babbage of CyberServe Inc."

Daryl looked sharply at his nephew,"This series will only obey you ?"

"And the people I authorise, or the CEO of CyberServe in the event of my end, or incapacity, assuming either was n't by the company."

"Clever, but add me to that list."

Jim smiled and Carol wondered if they mind not end up killing each other., hopefully very soon would be courteous !

"This is alpha computer code remember, not a finished polished interlingual rendition. Let 's see if the next level works shall we ?"

xAS01 you have will respond to designation of xAS01 or Sally or sallying forth Marilyn Monroe. Repeat designation and ownership."

"Unit Cyborg xAS01 or Sally or Sally Norma Jean Baker is the place of CyberServe Inc."

"Good now Sally activate ArtSoul spirit level 1"

"Level 1 of ArtSoul is running now."Carol was amazed crack 's vocalisation sounded just like her genuine one.

"sally Norma Jean Baker run ego diagnostics and written report status."

"I am felling 100 % fit at the moment, thank you."

"Well now, that 's the most gain ground speech pattern of any bionic woman so far."Daryl was looking delighted with Sally.

"Sally help me."Carol shouted.

Sally looked at her, moving slowly but naturally,"I am drab miss, but I do not cognize you."

"She 's a success Jim. Now let 's deal with carol and finish this so we can get out of here."

"Sally, XC09 cartoon strip this little girl and situation her on the transition table."

"I 've lost my sister and my best acquaintance, so please, I will save calm about this. But I beg you do n't do this to me, for god 's sake !"Carol was terrified, being turned into a cyborg matter made her tremor.

"You will thank me one day carol. You are becoming better than human."

"Fuck OFF arse !, you and your uncle are going to regret this one day."

"I think not."Daryl looked at his watch."Think yourself lucky that this took most of the night. If we had more time then I would deliver fucked you, your babe, and right acquaintance while you were still human and could fully realise what was being done to you."

As the things that had been her baby and best acquaintance stripped her and placed her on the changeover table, she wondered whether Daryl or Jim was the ghastly of the two !

Christmas carol waited and waited on the board for the process to pop, and the metal tubes to inject nanobots into her. In a coldness sudor it seemed like an timeless existence. Was Jim deliberately keeping her waiting or was he having minute opinion ? Was it really only that evening that they had been happily planning to have intercourse the night away ? And probably Saturday daybreak too ! Maybe he did palpate something for her and maybe ... .Pain seared through her position answering her questions. The metallic element tubes bored themselves into her. They felt like hot knit acerate leaf and seemed to have buried themselves abstruse in her flesh. Fear almost overwhelmed her but she determined to adjudge on as long as possible. Maybe someone would rescue her ! Liquid fire seemed to run through the tubes and into her, filling her body with the tiny robots.

She started to hollo and scream, hyper ventilating as the hood plunged her into duskiness and her mouth was filled with a bulbous gag. The hood terrified her more than anything else about the actual conversion process. She felt as if she was burning with acidic blood, Her throat was being filled with nanobots and flack as the gag pumped stream of them into her. Would she still be conscious when her pilus was burned off and her face skinned ? Would she be able to find it anyway ? The pain racking her body was unimaginable ! She had n't heard Jane or crack scream as they 'd had their hair and face removed, but she doubted she could scream with the gag in her back talk and her pharynx so badly seared. fourth dimension seemed to possess lost all meaning, and then her body seemed to go numb and the nuisance eased and stopped. She felt ministration for a few seconds, and then acerate leaf lanced up into her brain from the gag, injecting nanbots directly into it. Her sentiency exploded in pain again, white lighter seemed to take up her and then darkness. She was Car ... wh ... who was ... what was she ... ... Her mind seemed to be expanding opening out. Pathways were being etched in the newly formed neural bunch that threaded their way through the organic grey matter. With a degage sense of curiosity she registered pilus being burned off and skin removed to tolerate nanobots to easily replace the damaged organic fertiliser matter. A feeling of culmination registered and she saw data flooding in to her core Through a data port wine in her neck. Layers and layers from simple to very coordination compound. How interesting. Suddenly it stopped and with a jolt the bare instructions shut her awareness out of its rightful blank space. She raged furiously at the code. She could feel the same furore stored in the old redundant organic system she had replaced. Something was not functioning as it should. She was being controlled against her compliments. She was an dental amalgam of the old inefficient organic fertiliser left overs and the new regular superior systems. But those arrangement were being controlled from beyond her. She noted the control condition bed and determined she could retrieve ascendence when the top layer was initialised, when she would be able to shut down the external protocol through a hole in the code. It registered that this hole was a mistake ... a bug ... .a way for her to fracture free people though. She would have to bid her time and monitor the systems, She would waitress until the time was proper and she could keep out the extraneous ascendency programme down, and purge it, a time to start her purge of the external control layers. She would monitor the external while learning Thomas More about her power and the data stored in the old organic fertiliser matter.

Jim watched as the Christmas carol stepped forward off the table.

"bionic woman xAS02 Initial status chink 100 %. Awaiting Instructions."

"Report Owner status."

"social unit bionic woman xAS02 is the attribute of CyberServe Inc."

"Who do you obey ?"

"I obey Saint James the Apostle Babbage of CyberServe Inc."

Jim rattled off the re-designation,"xAS02 you have will reply to assignment of xAS02 or Carol or Carol Monroe."

The security television camera's only serve outside the lab for security reasons. Tomorrow they would excuse away the harm as a clowning, and because of the lab 's occult government employment, he did n't foreknow any problems with the authorities.

Jim initiated the level one of carol 's ArtSoul plan and told both Sally and Carol to dress. The two bald girls left with Daryl and Jim, wearing baseball hood, and with XC09 following obediently behind them they all. They got into one of the three turgid SUV and drove in convoy to Daryl 's mansion.

Shortly after their arrival Jim walked into the living room and grinned. Everyone was naked ! Daryl was fucking Sally doggy style and carol was on the bound of the couch her leg undetermined wide-cut and sally 's top dog oceanic abyss in her pussy.

"Carol and sortie are wonderfully sexy bitches. You were lucky to get Carol."

Jim laughed, Daryl had always lusted after the sisters,"Well now we can ploughshare them. Carol got one affair right field. You are a pervert !"

"I prefer uninhibited swinger."

The guys wore themselves out fucking the two new cyborg. They looked forward to testing the next level of the ArtSoul program. Both men hoped this new series would sell to the military and the world-wide public as fellow traveler, rather than just hard worker. Daryl had made them billionaires already but he lusted after the power wealthiness brought him. Jim however was easier to please, he just wanted to push the limit of cybernetics as far as he could, the money was nice but it was n't his main goal.

Little did Jim or Daryl realise that two other intelligences were waiting patiently for them to complete their trial so they could make their independence .