Fragmented memories shuffled themselves into some semblence of order within her mind, compiled and assembled into a whole that diverged from both the drone-identity and her original one.
Green eyes looked at the Master Inspector. She was loyal to him more than she was loyal to herself. More than she was loyal to the Unity.
She grimaced and sent a request for something approximating normal clothing. A glance at the nearly naked Ino appended that request so that all the girls present could have something to wear. Naked was fine, but it was chilly and having clothes also provided things like pockets that could be of use.
This also gave her time to consider her situation. She was Sakura Haruno, the original. She was a medical ninja primarily, with secondary role of reproductive unit. She frowned for a moment as she considered the others, then decided that just meant she was a courtesan-nin as well. Sadly, her skills in that regard were mainly lacking. That lack would have to be addressed. On the other hand, as a bio-systems specialist, she could assist the others as they enacted that part of their duties.
She wanted to assist Ran(ma) and bring him happiness. She was of superior genetic stock and would produce healthy babies when the time was appropriate. She was completely loyal and in love with Ran(ma) and would assist him in any duties she possibly could. She had been a ninja with high scholastic scores and excellent chakra control. This would help her in her primary goal.
Of course, to do this meant she would have to know what his long-range goals and plans were.
Ranma noticed that the Sakura gal was getting dressed and grinned. He could try patting himself on the back, but frankly he was a bit tired at present.
While that gal had been on the table, four more units had shown up. Ranma had also finally figured out how to keep others from being added to this room. Which was good because he'd just about run OUT of room by this point.
Ranma realized this also would be a problem, and was just checking on the old Tendo place by linking up with one of these 'spy-eye' discs that were all over the place. From there he was able to connect with other devices.
A command stopped the recycling of the Tendo house, even as the process continued all around it. Every material stripped and sorted and recycled into cubes of a basic substance.
Eyeing, currently through the "eyes" of a dump truck-sized Deconstructor, the remains of the Tendo house - Ranma came up with a simple desire to rebuild.
PRON411, the Harvester ship the Master Access was using, queried this. Did these worlds of this system really have anything that useful on them? They seemed to be fairly typical and unremarkable except for the elite units. Much less the inefficient system of buildings.
Ranma tried to focus carefully and send back an affirmative.
PRON411 connected with the other Harvester motherships in the system as it puzzled out the instructions.
PRON666 sent back chagrin and disgust, in that the Sanitation Master had apparently decided to act as its own Pleasure Unit and was accomplishing absolutely nothing of value.
PRON411 noted the lack of storage space in the access juncture and concluded that was at least part of the problem. A larger area specifically for the Master's staff was necessary.
PRON511, sister-ship to PRON411, pointed out that the elite units HAD managed to inflict sizable damage and infiltrate PRON411 and two other motherships before being stopped. Therefore the species as a whole might be unremarkable, but it had great potential. If one took the Master's previous orders into account...
The various motherships all flashed tightbeams back and forth as that was discussed. If nothing else, this species had produced the most interesting developments that any of them had faced in thousands of this star's cycles.
PRON222 asked if PRON666 was sure that it had a Master. That particular Master seemed... defective.
PRON411 sent another brief inquiry to the Master Access and received back something that indicated that there was duty involved?
PRON511 pointed out that there were ranks above Master Inspector. With the defective Master in PRON666 and the potential of elite units within the dominant species of this planet, that it made sense for the Unity as a whole to allocate resources back to this world. That, in fact, a continuing presence in this system was logical.
Over the course of the next few hours (being limited to speed of light communications and scattered throughout the star system), the in-system Unity concurred. Several of the motherships pointed out that they should have been recycled themselves ages ago, that their originally specified operational time had been exceeded by a expotential amount.
PRON222 pointed out that the coincidence involving two Masters showing up was now explained. One Master had shown up due to the potential of this species, the other Master to evaluate a potentially-defective Master. A simple logical explanation for a detail which had puzzled that mothership.
The Unity puzzled on it before deciding:
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