Reborn as the Iron Queen: Love and Gunpowder in the Civil War

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Reconstructing the Fed with an Aborted Fetus



The asphalt of Wall Street was oozing amniotic fluid as Eleanor cut open CSA-07's chest. This hybrid product of Lincoln clones and polar bear genes was tearing at her cervix with ice-crusted claws, "Mom, I was born to replace you...as the Governor of the New Federal Reserve!"

"Then I'll show you true capital labor." She inserted the bloodied cervical dilator into the child's throat, and CSA-07's howl instantly turned into a Federal Reserve interest rate hike siren tone. All the Manhattan skyscraper glass curtain walls exploded in response, and the debris coalesced in the air to form a transparent building in the shape of a womb-the new Federal Reserve headquarters.

CSA-01 suddenly mutinies. He gouged out his mechanical eyeball and embedded it in the building's base, and Wall Street instantly shook the ground. Thousands of specimens of aborted fetuses pour out of the ground, their umbilical cords entwined into the Federal Reserve emblem: "Mom, these are your 2140 frozen failures...now it's time to recycle them."

Eleanor kicks open the CSA-01, and bitcoin code erupts from the crushed eyeball. She grabs the fetal stump and inserts it into the Federal Reserve mainframe, and as the DNA verification beam sweeps by, the interior of the building emerges as a trading floor of flesh and blood - the walls are placental tissue, the seats are vas deferens weave, and the vault door is the very cervix that was removed from her youth.

"Welcome to the Bank of Life." A holographic projection of the Morgan mogul burrows out of the fetus's mouth, holding Eleanor's twenty-year-old egg freezing protocol, "Your mortgaged 327 eggs have all been liquidated...including this one-" he suddenly crushes some clear capsule, and the embryo sleeping inside is actually the original version of CSA-01.

Eleanor's C-section scar suddenly splits open, gushing out menstrual blood with the Black Death virus. She smears the infected blood on the vault door, and the Federal Reserve's gold reserves are instantly oxygenated into ash: "Want my eggs? Let your dirty currency be buried with you first!"

Suddenly, CSA-07 detonates the ice core inside its body. Arctic winds pour into Wall Street, all fetal specimens freeze into Bitcoin miners, and the mechanical womb architecture begins to rotate itself - with each revolution the heart of a Wall Street titan is transformed into a vault code.

"Mother, this is the first lesson you taught me..." says CSA-01, ripping out his own spine and inserting it into the main console, "The nature of capital is to devour the mother!" The trading screen suddenly plays the security footage of Eleanor's abortion procedure, the embryo's screams are converted into Dow Jones index codes.

Eleanor climbs up into the Fed Dome and rips open the stale scar on her abdomen. The rotting ovaries fall onto the frozen NASDAQ clock tower, smashing out giant QR codes.CSA-03 scans them and screams, "It's...the Final Clauses of Uterine Colonization for the year 2140!"

All electronic devices across the U.S. force a pop-up of the agreement: when Eleanor dies of natural causes, all of her aborted fetuses automatically take over as Chairman of the Federal Reserve until the extinction of the human race.

The Lincoln clone emerges from the ice storm, holding Eleanor's teenage diary, "Know why you were chosen?" He flips the yellowed pages to reveal an equation written in menstrual blood inside, "Your menstrual cycle...happens to match the volatile curve of capital expansion."

Eleanor snatched the journal and shoved it into CSA-07's chest. The ice bear gene reacts with the equation and the child instantly expands into a giant capital monster, dripping slime from its claws and teeth corrupting the NYSE: "Mom, my initial command is...to turn you into a living gold standard!"

As the Fed building begins to shrink and squeeze her innards, Eleanor chews on the nitroglycerin hidden in her wisdom teeth. The blast of air topples the CSA-01, and she takes the opportunity to saw the cervical ring into a key and insert it into her temple, "Babies, mommy's teaching you one last lesson-"

Brain matter mixed with encrypted data gushed out, coloring the entire East Coast red. All the CSA series kids suddenly died en masse, their mechanical hearts indicating that their mother's brain death had triggered the ultimate meltdown, and the capital system went into Ice Age mode.

Three hundred miles away, a giant QR code on the Antarctic ice cap automatically updates.CSA-08 breaks out of its shell from the ice, a monster synthesized from Eleanor's brain tissue and the Dow Jones Indexes, with the new currency symbol, MenstruCoin, branded on its forehead.


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