● POV: Mouthy

"I thought you said your mom came from old money?" I whispered at Pearl when Harlot went to check downstairs, "Abigail Shoichi was born in a ghetto!"

Pearl blinked, then realization clicked in his eyes, "Oh, no. See 'Old Money' is slang for 'Real World Money'. Since people aren't being born anymore no reason to distinguish people born into money and those that earned it. Both came from the real world after all. Get it?"

I groaned, rubbing my head. All this new slang that developed was hard on the brain. I was bad enough with that stuff in the real world and now slang had evolved for thousands of years without me.

"Come on," Pearl grabbed the plate of cookies and stuffed them into his Profile. Then started flying up the stairs.

"Where we going?" I asked, but followed him anyway, grabbing hold of our milk bottles and throwing them into my own profile before fluttering up the stairs with my tiny wings.

"Don't you want to see our room?"

While Pearl grinned I blinked in confusion, and maybe a dash of panic, "OUR room?"

Pearl frowned, "Well... yeah... you need a place to sleep when you spend the night." He said, as though it was obvious.

That relieved me a good bit. For a moment, I thought they expected me to live with complete strangers!

Pearl brought me up to the second floor. Again it looked like a suburban home... only bigger. Suburban mansion? Maybe.

We first entered a large sitting room and Pearl lead me down a hallway. We passed 6 doors, 3 on either side of us, then came to 2 doors at the end of the hall. So 8 bedrooms up here total, plus the huge sitting area... That would explain how the library and game room were so big.

Most of the doors were open as I walked down the hallway. The first 2 rooms looked like the kinda cliche grownup offices you saw on sitcoms. A desk, family pictures on the walls, a couch in the corner with a plant behind it. They looked pretty suburban.

Further down the hall was a guest room to the right and a... an empty room? Yeah, to the left was a completely empty room... and my name was on a plaque on the door. Even further down was two more plaque on doors. One was for Pearl and the other was for Fluffy (with a big red stop sign on under the name reading "Keep Out"... but we didn't go into any of those rooms. Instead we went all the way to the back, to the two doors at the end of the hall.

"That's mom and dad's room," he pointed to the door on the right of the end of the hall. Then lead us through the left. It had a plaque with a rainbow over it, reading "Kids room".

The bedroom was rather... ordinary. Yes it was big but it looked like a regular kid's bedroom, for the show that is. There was lots of posters and stickers everywhere. No closet but 3 warehouses and 3 dressers, even 3 bookshelves. Each of the long walls had a set of these things. Including a wooden chair in each corner (not including the corner with the door). Paddles, brushes, wooden spoons, and thin canes hang from racks on both sides of the corners.

The back wall had a changing table in front of a large window. Then a race car bed and a pirate ship bed at either side of it... and a crib next to the pirate ship.

At the center of the room was 3 desk put in a triangle. The desk were 'L' shaped and had shelves for books and papers. One of the desk was rather messy, with wadded up paper and color pencils about... strangely the pictures looked anything but child like. They looked like artistic master pieces, with others that looked straight out of a 2D film.

Pearl "discreetly" shoved the papers in a drawer the moment he noticed them, indicating that was his desk.

"Homework for art class," Pearl bashfully smiled.

Even with all this stuff the room looked far from crowded. There was a lot of empty space filled with posters and stickers.

"Mom spent the day rearranging our room," Pearl informed, "The crib and the front wall are yours. Feel free to link the furniture to your Hub."

I titled my head, "Whatcha mean?"

Pearl playfully rolled his eyes and lightly punched my shoulder with his finned arm, "Bloody hermit," he teased.

Then he showed me how to link my Wardrobe to my favorite outfits. Then each drawer was linked to a different section of the equipment in my hub.

Once linked, Pearl showed me how I just open them to look through the connected inventory. A screen popped up once I opened a drawer and gave a rotating image of a gun with a description and stats. The weapon had been in my hub when I respawned... cuz it sucked. It was just a generic Covenant Needler with no modifications... still I used to be good with this back when I used starting equipment in MLG.

I touched the image and another screen popped up asking if I would like to add this to my inventory, equip it, or cancel. I stock it in my equipped it. The next thing I knew there was a gun holster on my naked hip, with the Needler inside.

Ponies were all nudist in the show, and Pearl was naked. So was Mister Flare when he came to my house. So I didn't worry about nakedness. Not like any of my bits were showing as I had my profile set to "SFW" like pearl and Harlot... it was kinda embarrassing that Flare and Fluffy had his bits on display, but that was their choice and I wasn't a total prude. My Little Galaxy, the game I was living in, was programmed to be very realistic despite the cartoony art style. All the races that were supposed to have sex parts, did.

Ignoring all that, I touched the arrows on the screen and searched through what I had in here. It was just basic generic weapons, but from various different franchises.

There was a jewelry box on the dresser, which had all my saved tattoos, makeup, scars, and various cosmetic accessories, even a good bit of jewelry. Organized neatly into each of the tiny drawers.

That is one thing I love about living in a game. Everything was so nicely organized. Really helped my OCD tendencies.

As I worked on this, now adding various generic equipment to my level one self, Pearl eagerly asked my opinion, "Do you like the kiddie furniture? Mom rebought it from her purchased list and customized it to your Avatar's color scheme. If you don't like it we can change it."

That would just be ungrateful, "It's cool... I like it a lot." I added a moment later. I was never really good with social niceties... and I had just gotten worse without human interaction. "Sorry if I seem absentminded. I haven't restocked my inventory since... you know..."

Pearl suddenly frowned... then looked down in shame, "Did you really... zero out?"

I tilted my head, but given the context he used it before I assumed that meant respawn, "Yeah but don't worry about it."

"You lose all your gear though? Even... even the Infinity Gauntlet?... all your potions and custom weapons... I saw how thrilled you were when you made your first grandmaster level weapon's mod in MLG."

I shifted uncomfortably. I didn't really realize, when I started posting my videos... that everybody would see my entire life... they effectively watched me grow up for ten thousand years.

"Did you..." Pearl built up the nerve, "did you really lose even that?"

"Don't worry about it..." I assured, "Seriously, don't. I would do it again..." I continued to look through my inventory. Watching him from the corner of my eye. As if he couldn't see my eyes looking at him if I didn't turn my head... I can be a silly sometimes...

Pearl looked at me a moment, "I know you would... if you want, I can give you a few training programs to help you get good. Adventuring and crafts aren't enough. You need to train if you want to be a level 2 by next year."

My entire body froze and then, lightning fast, my head jerked in his direction. He actually yelped and jumped back a bit. Then laughed at my flabbergasted expression.

"We live here forever!" Pearl chuckled, "Did you think the AIs would make it easy to level up? The only way to really get a huge boost in level is by doing something epic, like killing someone as powerful as the Haunted Child as a level 1. Then taking on an army single hoofed. Why didn't you level up immediately after taking him down? None of the Rocket members could have taken you on then!

I looked at the Seapony a moment before admitting, "I figured I wouldn't have time to read all the perks and their branches."

Pearl just looked at me, "You realize you could have done that later, Right? You could have just boosted your stats automatically. Then you would have had so much health, combined with your Healing Factor Augment, and they literally couldn't have killed you."

I just stared, then slowly asked, "You mean to tell me... I died... because I misunderstood how the game worked?"

"Newb!" Pearl laughed well I groaned in despair, "It gets worse. I doubt you would have gotten all that many perks anyway. The game gives you perks based on how many skills you level up. Is 1 per every 5 levels. You barely raised your skills at all so you would have just gotten a boost to your stats. Your Magicka, Stamina, and Health would have gone up 100 points per level and killing the Haunted Child would have skyrocketed those. The kill shot you got that killed him was worth just as much as any other kill shot. So your Firearms skill wouldn't have gone up more then a single level. IT was purely the XP you got for killing a stronger opponent that would have leveled you up a few thousand levels!" Pearl laughed as he explained, "Combine that with your level based Augments and you would have become a god fresh out of the gate! Freaking NEWB!!!"

"It's not THAT funny..." I blushed.

"It totally is!!!" Pearl laughed harder.

"OH!!!!" My eyes widened, "I need to rebuy those Aug- thingies."

Pearl wiped a tear from his eye from laughing as he tried to catch his breath, "You still haven't done that?"

I snorted, "I've been too busy crying these last couple of weeks."

Pearl instantly froze. The laugh immediately died.

I quickly added, "Not about respawning, or whatever, Digit is forcing me to make a new character when my MMO opens up... I would have lost everything anyway..."

Pearl hesitantly nodded, "AIs can do lots of... hurtful things. But it's always for our own good." Pearl insisted.

I sighed, "I know... can you show me those programs?"

Pearl blinked at my sudden change of topic. I suddenly changed topics a lot and even backtracked the conversation.

"The training programs?" I clarified.

Pearl gave a hesitant nod. He opened his muzzle to respond when their came a call from downstairs.

"Boys!" It was Pearl's Mom... guess she was mine to now, "Where'd you get to?"

Pearl peeked his head out the door and yelled back, "I'm giving Smouth a tour of the house!"

I could practically hear her shaking her head, "I see you took all the cookies with you."

We blushed and looked at each other.

"Come back down, so we can go over the rules with Mouthy."

"Sure thing, Momma," Pearl called and directed me to follow him.

Pearl and I sucked on our bottles, the cookies back in the middle of the family. Now on a nice looking coffee table. We sat around the living room with the whole family. Fluffy was squirming between Pearl and myself as we sat on the couch. Clearly uncomfortable on his sore rump. Hot Ice Harlot and her husband were seated on comfy pony chairs at the sides of the coffee table. Their chairs could spin around to face us or the TV.

The parents were reading over the contract I had with my AI. The contracts were floating on see through screens in front of them both. When we started going over rules, I told them about the contract I had with my AI and they asked me to send copies to their profile. As the contract would give them an idea of what I wanted out of this relationship.

"This seems pretty straight forward," Harlot smiled, "We'll need to make a few adjustments, that I expect your AI to implement."

I groaned, "I like the rules as they are..."

Harlot smiled, "I imagine you do, but children don't get to make the rules. And from what I've seen, they don't really want to. They want to give up control and have the grownups decide what's best for them. I'll obviously take your preferences into account but my Husband and I will decide what is best for you. As we do with our other children."

... I felt so freaking tingly right now. I was glad I had the decency filters on or I'd have a hard on.

"First," Flare spoke up, "is this Bedtime business. You need to be in bed by 8, like Pearl. Little boys should not be staying up til 2. Even Fluffy has to be in bed by 10."

"Then can I stay up til 10!?" I begged.

"None negotiable little one." She shook her head firmly, "It wouldn't be fair to Pearl."

Pearl spoke up, "What would be fair is if I stayed up later then Smouth!"

"TRAITOR!!!" I accused, half jokingly but mostly serious. Thinking he wanted me to go to bed even earlier.

"No, really!" Pearl insisted, "I should be allowed to stay up til 9!!!"

... oh...

Flare grinned, "Really now? Maybe we should put you to bed by 6 instead."

"DAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!" Pearl wailed.

"We have had this talk already." Flare dismissed, but explained anyway, likely for my benefit, "School starts at 7AM, which means you have to be up by 6 to get ready. That goes for you to Smarty. Gamer Brats Anonymous starts just as early. You boys need a full nights rest and a healthy breakfast to focus."

"Breakfast?" I blinked, not understanding why that was necessary.

Harlot explained, "The breakfast programs we have are mods, designed to increase brain activity and help you focus. They last for 5 hours, at which point you will feel drained as a side effect and need a nap. Schools are actually designed to accommodate meals like this and will give you a lunch break after nap time to socialize and get another dose of a 'healthy meal'."

I just stared at her, "School... promotes... drugs?"

Pearl laughed, with an exclamation of, "Bloody hermit!!!"

Harlot explained, "Well it technically is a drug mod, it is no more dangerous then having an energy drink in the real world. It is too weak a mod to cause any damage, unless you over indulge. Our civilization has had these energizing meals for as long as we have lived in this virtual reality. They were thoroughly tested and have no adverse side effects besides making you sleepy when they wear off. In fact, if I learn you used any unapproved mods, you will recieve a spanking every night for a week."

I gaped.

So Harlot explained, "It's like medicine. That needs to go through several layers of testing before it can be approved for use. It's untested drugs that are dangerous.

"Mods need approval by the AIs, after hundreds of years of testing, to make sure they are safe for use long term. Untested mods have been known to cause brain damage or severe addiction problems, sometimes by design. The AIs can fix it but they will have to take you offline for intensive surgery. Is rare but in some cases people have actually died in the real world due to dangerous mods in our virtual reality. It isn't just drugs either. Other unlicensed mods, like to give you extra powers or equipment, can be just as dangerous, as they are still stored on your harddrive.

"If you, or anyone, builds a mod, NEVER use it without having the AIs test it first. I know you can end up waiting so long for the mod you forget you made it but it is necessary for safety reasons."

I quickly nodded.

Flare spoke up, "If we catch you with an unlicensed mod, you will be punished VERY severely... but you'll still be part of this family. How we punish you will be strictly for your own good, and we may add a grounding on top of it, and use a few implementes to properly punish you so we don't accidentally cause you to zero out. You won't enjoy it in any way shape or form, as this will be actual punishment. Understand?"

I gulped before opening my mouth.

Flare held up his odd paw hoof as a means of asking me to stay quiet. "Think about this carefully. Any agreement you make is recorded into a contract that has legal ramifications. It's why even criminals will keep their word, because if they don't the AIs will step in. If you agree to this you are legally obligated to see it through. You won't even be able to legally terminate our relationship if it's too much for you to handle, on the grounds that you legally agreed to the treatment."

That got me scared, which is what I think they were going for.

Flare added, "However, this will also protect you from legal prosecution. You would agree to let your cyber family punish you instead of being transferred to a virtual prison for a number of decades. AIs take the misuse of mods very seriously."

Fluff waved off, "Most of the good mods have anti detection stuff built into them-"

"FLUFFY THE MAGIC DRAGON!" Harlot scolded him.

Fluffy rolled his eyes, "My point is, if they AIs get through that. You'll get in a lot of trouble with them and sent to prison. Which is seriously a not fun place where the AIs keep you active through suffering. You won't even have access to your hub or your personal AI until your sentence is up. Luckily, players who use child Avatars have the option of allowing their cyber parents, or biological family members, determine their punishment. Trust me a spanking every night for a week is much better then prison where you frequently get flogged and raped both by other inmates and VIs. That server is down right hell. It's even got a boiling temperature and heavier gravity! But if you agree to let our rents punish you, instead of going to prison, it will be much better then what COULD happen. Just another benefit of being a kid.

"And don't worry if it gets too much to handle. Mom and Dad let us use safe words, even during legitimate punishments. That means they will pause and let you recover and not start up again until you have calmed down and SAY you are ready to pick up where you left off. Most parents are like that nowadays."

That's not how safe words worked in the real world... I looked back at the 'rents' and asked, "So if you ever have to sincerely punish me for something that genuinely pissed you off... you'll stop?"

Harlot answered, in a very political way, "If you ever use your safe word during a sincere punishment we will let you recover and wait to start up again until you give the go head. Even if it takes hours of rest on your part. However, neither of us will leave our positions until you have given the go ahead and the punishment continues until we, as your Cyber Parents, believe it should stop. For role play or play punishments, the punishment will stop completely after we register you said your safe word, unless you later say you want to start up again."

Fluffy spoke up again, "Can I punish you to!?" He asked eagerly, "I'll obey the same rules as Mom and Dad, but it is always cool when the big bro can punish the younger siblings. Pearl let's me punish him!!!" He wiggled in excitement.

I squirmed at the thought of that, "If you catch me doing something I shouldn't, you can punish me how you see fit, so long as you promise you won't tell the rents you had to punish me."

Fluffy frowned, "That is too ripe for abuse. Let's rephrase; I will punish you in agreement to the punishments you have pre approved. If you tell anyone something like 'how you see fit' you will likely get punished in a way you can't handle."

The squirming only intensified.

"And, if I catch you using an unlicensed mod, I will punish you ONCE severely in accordance with the pre-approved limits you agreed to uphold to our Cyber Parents. However, that will be the one and only circumstance I will be allowed to tell our Cyber Parents that you broke their rules. Using unlicensed mods is really serious and not something you can get out of if we catch you. It is not a game or a limitation to playfully test. You could seriously, and permanently, die from using that stuff." He sounded like he had had a bad experience with an unlicensed mod...

"Is that how you know about the prisons? You used an unlicensed mod?" I asked.

Everyone in the room stiffened, maybe that had been inappropriate to ask.

Still Fluffy answered, "It was back before I used a teen Avatar... before I even met Master... I came to this virtual world thinking I could do whatever the heck I wanted... joined a guild I shouldn't have... they gave me a mod that only worked for a videogame... was a God Mode Mod. Unlike a God Mod, God Mode just gives you infinite health and such. No powers over the server... it fucked up my systems all to hell though. I had to be taken off line for a few days as the AIs operated... then they sent me straight to prison for 50 years. Is actually how I met Dad... he was a volunteer for the recovery program for former inmates..."

I tilted my head as I listened, "Must have been pretty bad if it is thousands of years later and you still have trouble talking about it." I tried to be sympathetic, but maybe wasn't coming off that way.

Fluffy sighed, "It was."

I squirmed in my seat, "I've modded weapons before,"

Pearl jumped in, "No you haven't, at least, not in the same way. Modding is slang for Hacking. Originally by hackers that were trying to get around legal ramifications. Now it is used even by legal hackers and everyone else. It's just become part of the culture.

"The mods you made where done using the crafting system. You can use the mod skill all you like. As that is purely a skill designed to use resources you find through the games to make upgrades to weapons, armor or vehicles. But your personal AI is required to put a seal in the description, marking it as such. Then legally approved hacked mods get a different seal to show that, from the mod testing AIs. Be careful though, as the real good hackers can fake the seal of approval. You need to ask the creator and make sure it is the real deal before accepting. As you can still get in trouble for using them without realizing it's a fake seal. To avoid getting in trouble, I recommend buying hacked mods from stores and stores exclusively."

I shifted in my seat, everyone looking at me silently debate, "... okay..."

Everyone smiled, while Harlot said, "So you agree to EVERYTHING we just went over?"

"Yes Ma'am," I quickly nodded.

"Please, call me Mama." She smiled at me.

I blushed at the thought, "Kay... Ma'am," I added after a moment then practically jumped at of my seat, "errrr Mama." Why was talking to players so hard!!!

She just chuckled at me. "We don't mind a Ma'am or Sir every now and then. We even expect it in formal situations, but you will not call us by our usernames, not unless you are introducing us to someone. As that is just improper for a child to call their parents. You will continue to address all other adults as Ma'am or Sir depending on the gender of their Avatar, or you will be punished, in a more playfully serious way. We expect you to be polite and respectful to authority figures and grownups."

Those were pretty easy rules to obey. I was already like that, "Yes Mama. I'll be good." Feeling as small as I look while agreeing to that.

She smiled at me. Amused by not only my phrasing but the fact I finally got her title right. "You can use whatever parental names feel most comfortable to you, but Mama and Papa are what we like best, okay?"

I smiled again, "Yes Ma'am... err Mama..." I blushed.

She laughed that I got her title wrong again, almost immediately after getting it right.

We went over a few more rules, just getting me to acknowledge they could take over the rules and punishments Digit implementation. They made me promise Digit would acknowledge the adjustments to my rules and implement them himself.

After a bit, Fluffy raised his hand as if he was in school, "I have one, I have one!" He insisted. Everyone looked back at him as he looked eagerly at me, "This one is purely for role play purposes and DEFINITELY something you should feel comfortable saying no to-"

"Fluffy..." Flare glared, giving a warning growl, that went ignored.

"If someone in the family has to punish you, will you agree to bless their privates with a blow job!!!" He bounced with eagerness, well trying to be colorful in his phrasing.

My face exploded into crimson.

"FLUFFY!!!" Flare snapped.

"You were going to ask him, right?" Fluffy defended, "Why do I got to be the only one who has to give 'proper apologies'!?"

Flare sighed, then looked at me, "As Fluffy said, feel free to say no. I realize you are Asexual and that is likely too much for you."

"While..." I squirmed, and started muttering in a near whisper. "I really like the idea of being forced into sex acts so... maybe... I could say no and beg you not to but then you can be like 'clearly you aren't sorry for what you did' and spank me again until I agree to do it..."

Flare's mouth dropped well Fluffy jumped up and fist pumped the air while screaming, "YES!!!" Then the teen got serious again, while still looking far too eager, "So you'll give 'Proper Apologies' to? Even to me!"

I hesitantly nodded, "S-sounds kinda fun... nerve wrecking, but fun... Don't worry if I say 'no'... I... I like saying no when I mean yes."

Fluffy grinned, "Awesome, but remember your safe word, kay? We use the simple 'red' for stop and 'yellow' to slow down but not stop, kay?"

I nodded my head, "Kay."

Now Pearl squirmed, as if debating something. However Fluffy wasn't done, "Will you do other sex stuff!"

Flare glared, "Don't push it." But now I was ignoring 'Papa' too.

"You can force me on occasion but just don't do that too often. I get overwhelmed." I explained, "And be sure to obey my safe word!"

"AWWWWWWWSOME!!! Don't worry, I won't abuse that right. It be freaking amazing to force you and Pearl to lick my shaft at the same time, or OR have you kiss well I spank you both and fondle you guys, or just watch you do stuff to each other and record on threat of a spanking if you don't do exactly as I say!!!" The digital teen giggled with delight as our Cyber parents rolled their eyes. "I've had fantasies about doing stuff like that to two younger brothers. Oh!!!" He straightened up and looked Flare, "Well were on the topic... Master... can you please not... 'catch' us as much. I love when you punish me with sex... or pretty much any other way, but sometimes I just want to be intimate with my little brother, now brothers... would... would it be too much to ask too give us more space. Not ALOT but... more?"

Flare sighed, looking between me and Fluffy... then explaining how he does things with Fluffy if he catches him fucking Pearl. (While also making it clear that if he ever hears the swear out of our mouths again we will be in for a world of hurt, and he was only being lenient on our language now because it was a special occasion). I gave him the okay to do the same kind of 'molestation' role play with me. If he promised not to 'catch' us 'kids' as often, the two us had to promise to let him 'molest' us. Both together and separately. I was tingling all over at the thought. Like I said. I love the idea of sex, just not the act. This was mostly giving my consent for nonconsensual role play, on the grounds that they try not to overwhelm me with my low sex drive.

However I had to agree to turn my "decency filter" off, meaning I would be walking around truly naked with my dick hanging out... but I would usually stay in diapers so no one would know unless I was getting changed. I agreed the parents could molest me during diaper changes and that would count as our "intimate time together"...

Harlot even wanted to be able to play with my weiner well breastfeeding me... I wasn't really into women but I wasn't exactly 100% gay either. I might not like humanoid females but had read the occasional clop fic with lesbian ponies... so I agreed to give the scene a chance... even promise to lick her pussy as a "proper apology" after she spanked me... I warned her I'd probably make a lot of grossed out noises while doing it. These were both something Pearl apparently said no to when they made his contract...

Harlot then said that the AIs had surgical procedure to help Asexuals who didn't want to be Asexual. It altered my brain chemistry to give me a greater sex drive and handle the act better, since I clearly wanted to have sex but just couldn't... it rewired my brain and basically did everything I was scared of... but it would change my sexuality so that I could actually enjoy sex... like I always wanted... it was scary, and I might have felt pressured into saying yes... but no, it was something I legitimately wanted to do now that I knew it was actually an option. The surgery would make me able to handle all kinds of touching much better. From innocent touches like hand holding, to intimate stuff like kissing and... sex stuff... I would still be my bashful self but I could actually enjoy and crave sex... how could I say no. I didn't want to be scared to act out my fantasies anymore. That is when Pearl asked for it too.

While the whole family looked at him in shock, Flare was the most amazed... and skeptical.

"No..." Flare informed, much too my surprise, before telling Pearl. "You're happy with yourself, Smart Mouth is not. That is the ONLY reason we even mentioned the procedure. Some people wish they had stronger, or even weaker, sex drives then they have. We are doing this as a corrective procedure HE wants. Like a sex change in the real world before people could just chose the gender of their Avatar. Smart Mouth is very uncomfortable with how his body reacts to sex and wishes he was different. You, on the other hand, have been content for thousands of years. You're only speaking up now because your scared you'll get left behind. I can PROMISE you, that will not happen. I will still go flying with you, and play tea parties with your plushy collection. And most importantly, I will continue to make time for you. Our dynamic doesn't have to change just because we are adding a new member to our family... and you certainly don't have to change the person you are happy being."

That settled that.

We moved away from sex stuff after that, and went back to general rules.

"I CAN ONLY SPEND A HUNDRED CREDITS!!!" I gaped... loudly...

Harlot smiled, "not exactly. We realize you have more money then you know what to do with but that is also a problem. You're too rich and spending money carelessly. We would prefer, if your AI automatically deposited 100 credits a day into your profile. You don't have to spend it and if you don't it will add up quickly. However, if you wish to make big purchases, you would need to ask us first before your AI could release the credits."

I scrunched up my nose.

"It will encourage deeper thinking and get you to generate more power, which would get your AI out of the trouble he is in."

I sighed... I might be mad at Digit but I certainly didn't want to see him get reprogrammed for spoiling me into complacency... but I wasn't exactly talking too him unless necessary either...

"Can we make it a thousand credits a day? Stuff seems real expensive here..."

"Actually," Flare grinned, "Outside Augments, Adventuring gear, and Vehicles. Most stuff cost about as much as the American economy, only round up the change to the nearest dollar. We are still spoiling you by letting you have even THAT much. We are hoping it will encourage you to save some of your money to make big purchases without needing to ask us."

I sighed, "Meaning you'll probably say 'no' if I ask."

"More then likely." Flare spoke honestly, "But will waiting a month to buy a modded gun REALLY be so bad?"

I looked at him and sincerely answered, "Yes."

Flare scoffed.

Harlot smiled, "That is what most people, who don't have your subscriber count, have to deal with. Besides, if you want, you can always ask me for help making your gear and adding approved mods to it. I saw on your show you love making crafts. It could be something fun we do together!"

I smiled at that. "I guess that is okay then." I said, without really thinking it through.

"Besides," Harlot grinned, "I'm not about to leave you high and dry. I like to give my kids gifts when they join the Family." Harlot smiled pulling out two gemstones from her profile and what looked like a credit card. One of the gems was white with moving black fog inside, while the other was clear purple. "After what you did for my son I started making you these as a 'Thank you'. The white and black Augment is something you must never share with ANYONE. As it completely brakes the games. Pearl tells me your biggest problem with the Main Server is you hate perma-death games. So this one grants you infinite Extra Lives."

Pearl gaped, "SERIOUSLY!!!! Why don't I have something like that."

"Because your last resort is killing yourself to escape conflict." Harlot explained, "Besides, only a certain type of player can even handle this kind of Augment. Most would become lazy and careless and result in their AI taking action to restore power. Smart Mouth has spent his entire Cyber Life in a game where he could literally never die. He continued to provide large amounts of power for thousands of years. So I doubt he would become complacent now."

She then looked back at me, "This Augment also gives you the ability to revive fallen players 10 times plus your level, per long rest. So as a level 1, you can bring someone back from the dead 11 times a day. You can also heal all stat abilities (Health, Magicka, and Stamina) at will, by 100 points times your level. You can even cure status effects with this power for an additional 5 points of Magicka. I call it the White Necromancer Augment. You can use it to protect those with you in case something like this happens again." By 'this' I figured she meant the attack... so as long as I was with Pearl or Fluffy they would have a lot of extra lives to... I would be their fail safe... like I was in my game for my digital friends... I smiled.

"The purple Augment is something I whipped up for fun based on your fighting style. Based on what I saw in the news videos of your fight against Team Rocket. You can teleport as an at will ability up to 100 meters-"

"What's 'at will' mean?" I interrupted, feeling those words were going to come up a lot.

Harlot smiled at me, while Flare glared at Pearl as he coughed into his hand "hermit". Harlot explained, "It means you can use them however many times you want, with no Magicka cost."

I gaped, later learning the highest an At Will power could go was 100, and that was only with a Master crafting skill. Grandmaster crafts also let you push one of your powers past game limitations based on your skill level, but only one. The rest of the powers had to be based on the Master level limitations. However you could add however many master powers your actual skill rank allowed. Harlot's God Mod let her add pretty much however many Master Rank powers she wanted to any Augment she created.

Harlot just gave me an amused smile, as I currently knew none of this but she would explain it later. For now She went on explaining what the Augment did, "The Grandmaster ability is an Emergency Teleport for you and 10 people plus your level once per long rest (however it drains all remaining Stamina so there is a 1 in 4 chance you'll pass out after teleporting everyone away, so make sure you think of a safe location before teleporting). You can also turn invisible with a bonus to all Stealth skills (100 plus your skill rank, plus level). You can do this 10 plus your level times per long rest." That '10' appeared to be the standard here. I didn't know until later it was the max bonus to limited use powers.

"You can also, manipulate time and space in any way you can think of 10 times a day plus your level. Even do something similar with manipulating your bones to create weapons or items 10 times a day per level. The only limits being your imagination.

"You can also shoot bone shards at will that do damage based on your level, times your 100 damage point. You can also combine explosive forces, poison, or just a magical attack for extra damage at the cost of 1 to 10 Magicka points depending on how much extra damage you want it to do. The poison attack does less damage but lingers to effectively do more over time. The Explosion does large amounts of damage and can hit everyone surrounding it for 10 feet plus your level. However, you can only use that at a distance or it will injure you as well. The Explosion does damage equal to 100 points times Magicka spent on it times your Explosives Skill, along with times your Archery if the shards are thrown, plus the damage of the weapon itself. There is, of course, a limit of 10 Magicka points put into it.

"And just to be extra nice," she held up the card last, "here is a VGP designed to help you train in the use of these powers."

I... blinked, "How come most of them are at will instead of having a Stamina or Magicka cost?" I really was horrible with my social skills. I should have said thank you first before asking questions.

Thankfully she smiled at my lack of tact, "Is just how Powers work; either at will, constant, or with a limited number of uses per day. Direct spells are where Magicka mostly comes into play, and Stamina mostly comes into play well running or using special attacks with weapons. However, some Powers allow for added bonuses through Magicka or Stamina."

I nodded, "Thank you very much ma'am these are all really cool." I think that was a good way to phrase it. I was really REALLY grateful and excited but I didn't know how to convey it politely.

She frowned, looking at the Augments as if they weren't good enough. Which is certainly not what I wanted but I didn't know how to express my joy... I was too unsure of myself around these new people to giggle and bounce with joy... I was kinda nervous... I wish I wasn't...

I got up from my chair and walked over to her. She watched me as I climbed into her chair with her. Pushing past my nerve, I wrapped my paws around her.

"These are the second best Gift I could have gotten... the first was you agreeing to be my mom."

She smiled fondly at me... while Fluffy snickered, "Damn you're cheesy." But silenced himself at his father's warning glare.

I continued to hug my new mom tightly, still very unsure of myself and even more self conscious thanks to Fluffy's teasing.

Author's Note

I know some people aren't going to like that I'm basically magicking away his Asexual tendencies but fact is I am Asexual and very unhappy about that. If I could change it I would. However I also realize their is nothing wrong with being Asexual and plenty, if not the majority, are happy with their sexuality. Which is why I am leaving Pearl as an Asexual. He likes all of who he is and really doesn't want to change. It was just the feeling of being left behind when the rest of his fam was active in a way he couldn't be thay scared him. However As Daddy Flare pointed out, a good poly relationship will accommodate all members of the family and everyone needs to devote time to every individual in the group.