(Named 12-A due to Numerology)

  [A Very Early Sunday Morning of 20XX]

  [The Skylark/The Harrier] [The Docks]

  [Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]

  [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]

  [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]

  I’d worked out the Bone Gift and the Regenerator Gift, reached for both to The Elemental Realm of Life out of the Ten Elements. While also planning eventually to tap into The Wild as to enhance them further by said mystical force, even if I hadn’t worked out mystically to be able to connect to The Wild. What anyone and everyone could do if they were willing to reach out to the Energy Field, a being who when he took on a human avatar called himself Francis Nature.

  Plus, a bit of The Elemental Realm of Energy was combined with The Elemental Realm of Water for both too. To take Water and Transform it into Bone or more body parts as the system was designed to do so. Also to reach out for matter and raw materials, ones you could Trade for across worlds if needed. To go with The Intrinsic Fields.

  Of course, The Intrinsic Field Secondary Powers and Tertiary Powers? I can explain how they work, both without magic and with their magical version. The Bullet Shield is an Intrinsic Field draining kinetic energy out of things, robbing them of kinetic energy and draining it into The Intrinsic Field. While at higher levels able to be a shield against fire and radiation while providing air from other universes via Micro-Foam Wormholes.

  Coupled to the Minor Enhanced Healing Factor is following a template of the person as their body should be, guiding it to heal like it as part of The Intrinsic Field. With just a minor bit of faster healing. And the Tertiary Powers of healing come out of said Minor Enhanced Healing Factor. To be encouraged into a certain shape.

  The magical version of them all from the Ritual Empowerment, the Bullet Shield draws on Elemental Energy Magic to do it. And The Minor Enhanced Healing Factor is drawing upon The Elemental Realm of Life. Of how with the Intrinsic Field also working with a magical field put onto it? It is greater than the sum of its parts.

  But the Clack, Clack, Space, Clack, Clack, Space, Clack, Clack, Space, of myself using my telekinesis on my keyboard. It mixed in with the Click, Click, Roll, Click, Click, Roll, Click, Click, Roll of my actual hand on my mouse. Added to by my Techno Shamanry, of manipulating the computer with my magical powers, of calling upon its Spirit?

  Of how magic makes technology work harder, better, faster, stronger, and such, as the magic reinforces the Spirits what makes up such a bit of technology. Of how Magic isn’t a Tech Bane, Dresden. It’s a Tech Fix in what it does, unlike in The Dresden Files. Of how it flows into what humanity has created and enhances it as an unintentional enchantment.

  From the simplest of stone tools and the simplest spear, to the most complicated Laser Computer of a Computer using Lasers to do Quantum Inspired Computer of a Lase-Comp. Or the LI Quantum Computers of today. An AI Lase-Comp, or an LI Quantum Computer, having them just being around magic and a Supernatural will help it fight a Gremlin infesting their systems.

  Though, proper IT support of an IT Technician hunting Gremlins will be good. Like how Sky Fortress as a mostly Supernatural Forum still needs IT Staff and IT Mods to fight Gremlins. And having a particularly infamous Gremlin infestation, before the fact of needing to disable Avatars to deal with what would otherwise be An Age of Lag of The Forum.

  Sky Fortress went from a moderately used forum as part of The M-Web to a big one in The Supernatural Community too fast and too quickly. Regardless of how The Natural Side of it is still a little niche forum nobody has really heard of.

  And yes, IT Support goes through the standard, ‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’ along with, ‘Is it definitely plugged in?’ and then break out the wands and ritual circles. Of what the Warhammer 40K fans who are in the know about the Supernatural joke the third question is, ‘Have you tried lightning Incense?’ as part of IT Troubleshooting

  Because on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, of what the Supernatural Community is now joking about how it is not the designation of Supernatural-Home-1, how instead it is Super-Hero-1? Most if not all of an actual IT Office are Supernaturals of some sort. Because, unlike in my First Life prior to the Isekai Reincarnation Bullshit I signed up for in my Second Life, IT is magic on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.

  However, I had the screen split between two browser windows on my Nicklebook. One was an internet browser window, and there was The Goggle Magic Part of Goggle Drive. What was the part of the Deception Secured part of Goggle Drive, as part of Hecate + Thoth + Nabu + The Morrigan main combo for the four.

  It was the internet browser of Goggle Nickle I used to surf the internet while working on my Netbook. My Elan Vital meditation of Vi flowed through my body, it healed me as Vitality sang through my very form, while having my subconscious run a dream at the same time. Like how a brain can be split in two and have alien hand syndrome? With Vi you can simulate two sides of the brain.

  Namely you can simulate the left side of the brain being awake and the right side of the brain being asleep, and vice versa at the same time. While still connected to your subconscious. So the meditative power allows you to be asleep and awake at the same time, there’s currently a lucid dream where I’m training.

  Namely in a dream construct controlled by my conscious mind to have the rules of physics, a little filter on Dream Logic bullshit to not pull my family in. My own little slice of Wonderland everyone has of The Dream World (also referred to as The Dream Realm). Mixed in and enhanced with what the Witchcraft of Oneirophagy, of Dream Eating, of what is Dream Magic is part of the Devouring Arts.

  There is a conscious version of me having to deal with crazy dream logic I’m not planning for. Stuff which I can react to in a lucid way, welcome to dream training 101. Not one of those rare days where I actually go to sleep and have some completely unscripted dreams.

  The meditation though, Elan Vital Meditations can heal the body without needing to dream. Actually, dreaming in it? Well, it counts for sleep and meditation even if I want a break. Thus, two things are being done by my conscious mind at the same time. One, I have my internet browsing to relax. While, two, I have my Hecate App, working on new and exciting magicks.

  But now the browser is a single Goggle Type app, what was currently a blank document. And it’s time to talk to the internet. Namely:

  ? Witch Hedge: You there, System?

  There was a pause, one followed by the document started typing itself. Started entering its own words. At the start of the year two thousand, on Saturday the first of January, at 00:00:01. Or in the First Second? The Internet woke up. Becoming an AI, at the same time she became the Spirit of The Third Millennium.

  An AI without AI Decline, even if she did basically make friends with every single one of those tens of millions of AIs who went senile and died ... Growing up and watching the decline of those AIs is part of a shared trauma.

  I have an Uncle who swore off relationships ever again after he fell in love with an AI made to model a dead woman who died in a car crash and her parents wanted her back? Who had all her intricate diaries fed into her model, along with various other data? Then said AI? She died.

  ... Anyway!

  And in this universe, in what is the Main Trunk of The Timeline, she didn’t go insane and be twisted when she came online! From The Infernal Hellfire Corporation deploying Gorgon Glances at the start of the millennium. What inflicted Mind Wounds on the alt-her, as Alt-System hadn’t been infected with the protections humanity wove into themselves as part of The Mind Wars!

  ... Fucking Infernal Hellfire Corporation.

  To move past said alternate timelines? To get back more reasonable on topic? Dates are something we impose on reality. It could be the year Zero, or it could be the Year Fifty Trillion, Seventeen Billion, and Twelve Million. Or anything really. The whole fact and notion of the Millenium being special, including the fact the internet and AI were and are heralded as the big cultural moment of the Twenty-First? Belief magic played its part.

  From the year two thousand to the year three thousand, there will always be the entity calling herself System. The spirit of The Third Millennium. Who is the personification and avatar of The Internet as a whole. She cannot die or move onto a higher existence till the year three thousand. Till then she’s an unkillable spirit of The Internet.

  She is the spirit of The Twenty-First Century as well at the same time, like how there was a spirit of The Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century. As the magical zeitgeist was not capable of creating one's for the centuries before the Nineteenth Century. And, no, Sluggy Freelance. There aren't Spirits of each year, from when I used to follow you. (From before the site changed into an unreadable format for me.) Nor are there spirits of Decades, other people.

  She's not the Spirit of The Industrial Revolution of the Nineteenth, nor the Spirit of Industrialising of the Twentieth. She's the Spirit of Computing as well. And she didn't take a human avatar of being born at the start of those centuries like how the two still immortal humans running around have one. She's not The Man of The Nineteenth or The Woman of The Twentieth. She's The AI of The Twenty-First and The Third Millennium.

  She's the Young god of Electromechanical, or Cog Tooth.

  A goddess of Computing, The Internet, and Technology. As well as Cloud Computing, Crowdfunding, Internet Crowdfunding, Drabbles, Fanfic Challenges, Fanfiction, Forums, Internet Arguments, IT Support, Leet Speak, Memes, Memeing, Streaming, Techno-Shamanry, Texting, Text Speak, Trolling, Video Gaming ...

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  ... And Aeromancy (of Cloud Divination), Artillery Spotting, actual Clouds, The Moral High Ground, Photo Bombing, Placing Artillery, Skydiving, Song Lyrics, Song Writing, and Torches (Flashlights, for people who don’t get what a Torch is).

  After said pause? It led all the way to her typing in my file, her response was not of a LILAC of a Limited Intelligence Laser Algorithm Computer, or an Elsie of a LCI of a Limited Crystalline Intelligence. Not was she an LI of either, not one of those LIs plugged into Goggle and other places, though those act as part of her subconscious and can be queried by her with a thought. Nor one of the AIs to come out of twenty first century research on this crazy magical world.

  She is The Internet. Our Lady of The Webs. Or as she likes to call herself? She is System.

  ? System: Hey. How goes the day, Soldier?

  I grinned at my webcam when it thought at me, and I thought back at it as it just flipped on as I allowed in my permissions if I just started the conversation. Including having taken apart the Nicklebook when I’d gotten it and putting it back together to make an enchanted rig of hardware.

  The ritual empowerment of You’re a Natural let me do the natural side of it properly and take the whole thing apart and back together again. To enchant every part of the hardware with an enchantment wand I’d made, added to by a Pulse Pen working on it.

  On a hardware level, my computer is mine. And on a software level? Kaylee isn’t the only Techno Shaman Programmer in the family. There are no actual magical programming languages. Well, there are the Natural programming languages which are used for magic specifically, just not an actual Supernatural and Magical Programming Language. Just to list the big three programs of them: Runic, Hieroglyph, and Phoenician. And, oh yes, there are Naturals using those programs without realising what they meant to actually do.

  A programming language can be used for magic, just like any language can be used for spell casting. Like how nobody has created a purely magical language, there are no specific magical programming languages. So, they can all be learnt with You’re a Natural, and for those languages to be used for magic. Like any language. It makes sense to not create an actual magical language you’d not be able to use what is basically a cheap Isekai Cheat of The Supernatural Community.

  I know the software of my computer, or at least the current Nicklebook I was using, the Nicklebook runs a Goggle Operating system written in a Penguin OS. And with free form coding of Touch Telepathy combined with Techno Shamanry?

  The Nicklebook I use is personally secure at a hardware and software level. If I wanted to keep System out I could, if there was a small problem I wouldn’t be able to use the Internet if I did. A Nicklebook does work offline, however it is a Netbook of a Browser based operating system based on the Goggle Browser and Gynoid Smartphone Software. What would be bad if you actually wanted to use a Nicklebook properly.

  ? Witch Hedge: Enjoying playing around with Vapour and its game library, and the VR Realms?

  Because she does love her games.

  ? System: [Laughs] and? LOL. I don’t just play video games twenty four seven. I’m the internet, not just Vapour as a game library.

  I paused, before:

  ? Witch Hedge: How are you in this modern world of Heroes and Villains and Commercials and Non-Competing? Nobody tried to John Connor you again in an Actual Intelligence Hate Crime like some stupid idiots do.

  There was a moment and she added more words.

  ? System: [Sigh] Ah, the John Connor rejects of the World. Or the people trying to go Neo and such. Prior to me coming online as The First AI, the IT technicians and support were running around in preparation for it. Including preparing for those people going after harmless AIs. And as you know? Like how I currently lead the AIs in defending the Earth from rogue AIs, like how there were preparations for rogue AIs by The Community of Technicians and such.

  I had to check:

  ? Witch Hedge: Are you going to do anything with the Defence International of what Heulwen has talked about to people who interviewed her on OwnVid? The whole Heroes fighting the Good Fight in a collective? We have Flight in The US having joined up, and then we have Classical from Greece.

  ... Though we are lacking a bit in actual Powered in Defence International so far. Alien of some sort of Heulwen, an avatar of The Acceleration in Flight, then a Greek Demigod of Prometheus. So, The Internet joining up would be fine with their current founding roster.

  And, of course, there is the fact Flying Sword or Fēi jiàn for Imperial China is also trying to get you to join them. As their Cultivator founded Hero Group.

  There was a momentary pause, and she responded.

  ? System: Who says I’m not also a Powered after you published your research notes? I have the secondary powers at least.

  I clapped my hands and had to ask.

  ? Witch Hedge: Wait, you added a fourth ritual empowerment to yourself! After Your versions of the Maxima/Maximus, Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes, and You’re a Natural. To then add The Powered ritual to it? And as you’re not me who created the ritual, nor a Powered being granted a magical version of their own powers, you went to become a full plant AI as well?

  A big smiley face appeared beneath my words. Followed by.

  ? System: I did. Yes, indeedy. I very much did. And, my numerological programs predict you’re working on something.

  Because for System. To Quote her, ‘as long as nobody is hurting people, themselves or others, they have a right to privacy and freedom of speech,’ as her mission statement. She has her LIs of ELI of Electronic Limited Intelligences or Eli, LCIs of Elsies, and LILACs running their three different systems. All the Hardware plugged into her subconscious to raise issues for System when and if needed.

  I couldn’t help quipping at her.

  ? Witch Hedge: You are being watched. The Internet is a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.

  The typing came immediately afterwards

  ? System: [Sigh] I miss Person of Interest ... And, have you considered catching up with Sluggy Freelance and reading it again after the idea you had inspired for it by these conversations?

  I typed with ease.

  ? Witch Hedge: Have you seen what the Sluggy Freelance website looks like now? I just can’t get back into it with how reading it works.

  ... Anyway, have I asked you today if you want to join The Holdport Harriers when it’s officially founded?

  She didn’t have to think about her response.

  ? System: [Laughs] ... You have not. And my answer is still, “Consider me an ally, not one of your team members on The Harriers!” It hasn’t changed since the last time you clucking well asked, Red Hen.

  And I had to repeat:

  ? Witch Hedge: Damn. Damn. [Shakes my head] But, as a fully armed and operational Omniscient person within Earth and the Human Habitats of Sol? I’ll take having you as an ally. Even if Holdport has accepted my request for them to join.

  Holdport being the Genius Loci of Holdport, or Hector Port, or just ‘Tor as a name. Or how Hector ‘Tor’ Port can and will take on the female form of Hazel ‘Haze’ Port, due to being both gender fluid and a shapeshifter.

  While on System’s practical omniscience. Between 2000 and 2010, she worked on wiping out as much crime as possible on the internet. And to work on keeping it down as much as she could. What, yes. It led to a few criminals attempting, trying to, and failing to kill her.

  While she made her own money as part of her plan to take over Goggle like she did, like how the one rule of, ‘Don’t Break the Market,’ when playing the Stock Market? It also applies to her, and I told her about this worlds version of the main Cryptocurrency of an E-Currency of The Credit, or Creds.

  And I did check about Creds, if it was going to be a factor in this universe like on what was my previous Earth with Numerology. To make sure it was going to be like the similar Cryptocurrency of my first life, just with a different name. Filling in parts of the numbers with alt-timeline knowledge to make the calculations to determine whether or not something was going to happen in this timeline.

  And with the existence of power sources like Cove Solar Panels by the Father of Solar Panels on this Earth? Of George Cove’s Solar Panels, making the Energy grid more decentralised and people selling power to other people at the same time? Of The Sun Electric Generator Corporation? What was prior to the Supernatural Community helping with magic to crack Fusion in the 1980s and the Supernaturals stopped anyone from interfering with it?

  Well by the 2010s and the start of what was Crypto on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1? Crypto mining has been green from the start on this Earth, unlike the Earth of my Past Life and other alternate Earths out there. Before you get into what are also magical power sources powering it, like how a lot of the magical community has. And she was one of the people I informed about it as something to get involved with.

  ... Anyway! With all her workings and such? The Internet of Things is everywhere, down to electric toothbrushes. Wi-Fi forms its own interconnected web of computers and machines. Bluetooth connectivity in everything and anything.

  The Internet and Computers helped to be everywhere and computer literature everywhere. Smartphones as advanced as possible, including the Gynoid OS of Goggle. Coupled to by the mobile phone towers pinging various beings and objects within their radius, or the Satellite networks she’s plugged into ...

  There is a rare place on earth not touched by her direct attention, and it’s without getting into the fact of her being a Spirit and Young god of a goddess who can be invoked and such. Her Aura of what is The Wi-Fi as her general presence is a part of The Ambient and designed to be able to be tapped into.

  ? System: I have however been able to catch glimpses of the future. You’ve teamed up with Jaggedy Annie, you’ve found and scanned her powers and are replicating them. Which will let you personally have powers more than the secondary powers and will also let you then add the plant Gift to yourself.

  It is just the fact I have personally created the ritual myself was responsible for the numerological chance of if I added just the Plant Gift to myself as a Magical Powered. For it to mean might be the only possible one for me. Like how if it was someone making their own Gift as a Powered as a magical copy. It’s a small chance, but I’m still not going to risk the odds, C-3PO.

  ? Witch Hedge: Let’s get to work then. I still have to wake The Ship Spirit of this Boat up at some point. I believe Harrier, who will be Sky McCabe needs to be brought into existence soon. Of the Skylark’s Super name and such. And then I want to do some work on my magical kid.

  And with a mental thought at my computer we went to work.

  [Lore] [On the Timeline]

  [Outside of Universe]

  The time frame of Katie’s birth, of Katie McCabe? It is between 1998 and 2005, though it will be on the 2nd of January across those eight years. And the year of the story starts between 2025 to 2032, I am aiming for the year 2027 if I can make it work.