[ WP ] You have the ability to Copy & Paste in real life ? What do you do ?

By this point, my abilities were well known, and several dozen governmental and paramilitary groups were attempting to - heh -'incapacitate' me. The game was surprisingly even; on one hand, you had the surveillance assets and raw manpower of about half the Earth's countries. On the other hand, you had a person who could clone just about anything, including himself. 
 
 All I needed was access to power. I could snap my fingers and clone anything weighing up to about a hundred pounds without any external energy source. With a car battery, I could do tanks. With access to high-voltage power lines, I could copy medium-size buildings. 
 
 Needless to say, this rightfully scared a lot of people. A man that can conjure up an atom bomb in the middle of the White House from a hundred yards away is a man that ca n't be allowed to walk around free. Simple as that. I had to end the game on my terms before they ended it on theirs. And I had a pretty good idea of how to do that. 
 
 They were definitely expecting me to go for one of the power plants. They had all beefed up security around the big ones, although I do n't think they expected me to hit the target I had chose. It was too obvious. But for me it was the only choice. The biggest power-generating facility in the world. Three Gorges Dam. 
 
 Going over the groundwork and actual attack on the facility would be a whole book by itself. But I'll just say this: when you can clone yourself, and when each of those clones can create physical objects out of thin air, it does n't take a whole lot of planning before any battle is trivial to win. In the end, the force guarding the facility surrendered after only a few minutes of fighting. 
 
 I stroll into the cavernous room the houses my objective: the feed line containing the raw power output of the entire facility. There's a large hole blown in the ceiling, open to the air, where a stray explosive went off during the attack. A group of Three Gorges control staff and military men are waiting for me; clearly, they figured out what I was after. 
 
 The commander of the military detachment stiffens as I walk in the room, and takes a step forward to address me angrily. 
 
 `` Have n't you done ENOUGH? Have n't you ruined enough lives already? Now you need THIS, too? What are you going to do? KILL everyone that's trying to stop you?!'' 
 
 I half-smile as I walk towards the feed line. I address him calmly over my shoulder. 
 
 `` No, I'm not going to kill anyone. I'm not going to make any weapons, or blow anything up.'' 
 
 The commander's brow knits as he frowns. `` Then what is all this FOR?'' 
 
 I turn around to face him and grin. `` A peace gesture. The biggest one the Earth has ever seen.'' 
 
 His brow knits further, but I lose sight of him as I turn back the machine, take a deep breath, and grasp the live power feed. 
 
 There's a blip, a jump, a gap. A moment that takes an eternity and no time at all. 
 
 I exhale, and look around. The room still looks the same. The commander is still staring at me, bemused. I try to control the excitement welling up inside me, and slowly look up, up through the hole in the ceiling to the sky above. 
 
 Directly above, about as big as a full moon, is the Earth. Beyond it, even smaller, and to one side, is another Earth. Beyond *that* is another one, and behind that another one, and on and on, as far as you can see. 
 
 And slightly obscuring the view is the big, space-worthy rocket ship sitting on the top of the dam. Identical to the thousands of other ones that have just appeared all over the Earth, mostly near big population centers. 
 
 I grin at the commander. `` I just copied geology and wildlife. The new ones are unpeopled. Should be more than enough for everyone, do n't you think?'' 
 
 The commander's jaw is flapping open and closed. He's totally awestruck. 
 
 I chuckle, and start heading for the spaceship. I think I'll head for one of the Californias. I've always wanted to live by the sea. 
 
 
 
 

