APHELION  CORPORATION, MAIN BRANCH, USA

Nova and Lucifer looked at each other intensely. Trying to understand each other's emotions through their eyes. Because both of them had heavy facades covering their feelings tight with the wall of Steel. Or so they thought.

Nova gave an easy smile and asked, "This is no less than parenting. It all depends on trust. I will believe your word on it." She stated.

Lucifer leaned back on the comfortable backrest of his couch putting his one leg over another. His arms lazily around the couch. "I respect your point Dr. Amulet." Lucifer stated.

"Nova. Call me Nova." Dr. Nova replied. Lucifer simply nodded. But she was well aware that it was not going to be implied soon.

"There are some things I need to discuss prior to manufacturing Mr. Aphelion." She said.

"I have designed the Humanoid, containing the age of five. Either girl or a boy." She declared. That seemed to jerk him out of his composed structure.

He sat straighter immediately and asked "Five? Do you have any idea what you're implying here Dr. Nova?" He asked incredulously. A child, though a Humanoid is a tough responsibility to take.

He agreed to be a sperm donor to a robot who would be fully an adult. And not a baby. Lucifer though.

"I know what you're thinking. But there are certain reasons for this. Some of the main reasons are ; Even if we make a fully grown robot, the mental capacity of the bot would be maximum of three year old.

Then we have to start teaching it how to talk, read, write by downloading datas and videos modifying it's memory in certain intervals of time.

Like we teach a human child. So that it's circuits don't crash with overload. It will ask questions, try to find answers, learn, try to judge good or bad and mature just like Human child would.

It will not depend on body structure. Next, frankly I don't want my creation to be sent to the Army. It would be so deadly, that it can kill hundreds in just a blink quite literally.

So as a parent, I would need to install good values, morals and many basic things in it quite literally. If it got in the wrong hands, there would be hell to pay for all the humankind.

But if I will create it's body like that of a child, I could just morph it as a human and present it as a trail or just an experiment before the actual one. I hope you understand my point Mr. Aphelion." She explained briefly. There are still some points that she didn't disclose.

Lucifer heard her patiently and took a deep breath while closing his eyes. In a moment he was buried deep in his memory.

"Brother. I am a father again." Zeus jested quite enthusiastically. "What's the big deal in it? You become one almost every day." He replied nonchalantly.

"This time they are twins. Apollo and Athena. Do come to bless them." Zeus stated further ignoring his jab.

"Why don't you try for your own brother?" Poseidon asked before he could reply. He sighed. "My wife is not yet ready. " he simply replied.

"They never are." Zeus stated with certain disinterest. There were quite a few hidden meanings behind the statement that made him snarl.

"He is not the one to force himself on a lady brother. Even if she is his wife." Poseidon answered. "It is not about the deed. Persephone ; your eldest daughter Zeus, thinks she is quite ready. But I do not.

After coming here, there were quite some changes in my body to adapt to the realm of the dead. One of them was my reproductive system." He stated.

"Last century, I got passionate with a nymph. She became pregnant with my child. But due to the essence of the Underworld, it's ruler in the seeds, the foetus produced tremendous heat in the womb.

That was impossible for her fragile form to bear. In just a month, before even seed can form a body, the nymph perished burning alive before my very own eyes with my child in her womb." Hades Agesilaos ; the lord of the Underworld shared his agony.

With each word he reminsced the ghastly memory of a beautiful woman carrying a child perishing before his own eyes wailing and pleading him not to save herself ; but her child. Their spawn. Which he so desperately intended to do so.

He even tried to pass his eternal energy to the child to save them from self destruction. But all was in vain. He felt like his flesh, his being was ripped piece by little piece and he couldn't do anything but just kneel there in agony.

Witness his own flesh and ichor perish itself and it's carrier and feel it's agony which was much more severe than his own.

Zeus and Poseidon were too stunned to react. But that didn't deter him in the slightest. With his eyes red with unshed agony and skin paler then normal he continued.

"I went to meet three fates. Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis. They said that my seeds are meant to create the next heir to the land of the dead. And he/she would be more powerful than me and rather intimately integrated to the realm of the dead.

So the women who carries the child will feel the burn of hell fire in her womb and will perish even if she succeeded in birthing the child if she will not be the goddess and a damn strong one at that." He explained.

"Wife ; needs to be crowned as Queen of Underworld before she carries my seed. Otherwise, she will perish before my very own eyes." He stated aching.

"And if the receiver of your seed is not human or even a  goddess then?" Zeus asked. Hades frowned. What in the name of hell was this dumb man talking about? But before he could retort, Poseidon said, "As a father myself Acheron, I would like to tell you a secret. The younger the child, the more they will be dependent on you.

For Zeus, it's mother's work to raise a child. So he doesn't know the responsibilities that come with being a father.

Do you think you're ready? Moreover, your child would be special. So much like you, yet very much different. So I think, you should take all the time in the world to think this over." Poseidon stated.

"It is okay to become a father later ; then to be a father like our father." He added further. "Or queit frankly like Zeus." He added in mirth.

"If you're thinking about the business aspect of it Mr.Aphelion, then let me placate you by saying, smaller the size and structure, bigger the savings in manufacturing." Dr. Nova's professional yet teasing edge containing a voice cut through his painful memory and he opened his eyes jerking forward.

He gave a soft chuckle when he registered what she said. " Boy. I want a little boy, Dr. Nova." He declared.

Nova smiled lazily and countered " Still going with the orthodoxy of wanting a male child Mr. Aphelion?" She asked.

But a certain steel to her voice didn't go unnoticed by him. "I simply don't consider myself worthy of an angel yet, Doctor. So you have to adjust with a little devil for now." Lucifer smirked while replying. Quite a literal mini-devil.

"On the occasion of Lucifer producing a little devil ; I would like to have my cake now if you don't mind Mr. Aphelion." She sassed with a certain steel that promised trouble.

Oh he was the ruler of hell himself. How can he refuse a bit of trouble at that? He smiled right back with an equal amount of challenge.

"A good parent shares with a fellow parent. Be a good girl and share your cake with your baby daddy Dr. Nova." His voice contained a certain amount of mischievousness and challenge in it.

Which she returned with defiance and fire of her own just with her eyes. As if saying ; If you want it, earn it. Oh it was going to be one hell of a journey with a little devil on it's way.