User blog:Ore-samma/My Automation (Terminator) (Machine Understanding)

Hello Fans, Ore-samma here

Here is day 22 of the halloween one-shot release.

This one is a favorite of mine. I really liked how it turned out.

I hope you like it!

Ever your Servant-

Ore-samma

I raised my face to the sky and exhaled, watching my breath mist in the air, dissipating in the cold rain, and carried off into nothingness by a gust of even colder wind.

“At last! I found you.” I said, looking back at the automation lying before me. I grunted and tossed aside the fragmented and rusting battle plate that I just pulled off of her and watched it tumble down the side of the debris of the lost civilization of the Dwemmer. As I pulled her from the wreckage, I noticed she was clutching a soulshard.

“Hey! Alright!” I exclaimed, “Jason! You just found the double whammy! I get to restore a piece of ancient tech, and also I get to see the memories stored in the shard!”

I grunted as I carried the automation away and into my mobile lab.

“Let’s see.” I muttered and hooked several cables to her superstructure. “Adapters are working, and it looks like I got the sequences correct. Power supply goes here, and data terminal connections go here….let’s see what kind of systems you have.”

I tapped on my interfaces and noticed she had a Zeon-Level power supply. Excellent! It was still in perfect condition! She would have an operational lifespan of a year on a full charge, and….according to my readings, she would be fully charged in a day! I slid over to her operating system and exhaled. Her programming was shot. I delved deeper and deeper and at last found a recovery partition.

“Hmmmm, it's damaged...no telling if it will restore the automation. Ah well, lets try anyway.” I muttered and activated the recovery process.

' Recovery process unable to start. Need Master operating system to slave to. '

Hmmm, I connected the main CPU unit to my implants to allow the operating system to piggyback on.

“Hope you don’t mind seeing and feeling all I do for a while, my sweet construct!” I said with a sigh, “Now that’s taken care of, let's see if you are damaged structurally.”

I tightened bolts, and disassembled and reassembled joints, magically removed rust, restored metal and oiled up articulations. At last, I tightened the last screw and patted the automation on her red haired head and sighed and stretched.

“Hmmm, power charge at seventy five percent, operating system restore at sixty percent.” Looked at the soul shard and connected it to my internal running system. “Gonna see what secrets you were holding, and catch some sleep!”

I leaned over and kissed my newest find on her forehead and patted her again and rolled into my bunk, dimming the lights and being lulled to sleep by the electronic background hum.

The electronic him slowly intensified, and the softness of my bed turned cold and hard as the present slipped away as the memories of the shard slipped in, a seamless transition into a identity that was now mine...

The electronic him slowly intensified, and the softness of my bed turned cold and hard as the present slipped away as the memories of the shard slipped in, a seamless transition into a identity that was now mine...

I gasped, holding my broken ribs as still as I could, feeling my lungs fill with blood as I kept my back plastered to the door even as the things were pounding against it with their unfathomable strength.

“The hell are you waiting for?!?” I screamed, feeling and seeing a fount of blood gush from my throat and splatter to the floor. “There is no stopping this thing now that I activated it! Run! For love of the sun and stars! Run!”

My love Helva, still holding onto our daughter, bawled as she and the rest of the survivors rushed to the hidden tunnels that would allow them escape.

My second in command placed his hand on my shoulder and pressed a soul shard to my chest. “Major....Kyle….. you deserve to be remembered for all time. If there is any of us left, I will make sure we return and let all know of what you have done this day.”

I nodded and coughed another lungfull of blood to the ground. “Go, James. I want to give you all as much time as I can before I activate the phased rift device. NOW GO!”

I held my back to the door, aided by my spells and cybernetic enhancements for what seemed like an eternity. Each second giving our people time, distance, and maybe the barest beginnings of hope.

With each thunderous slam, I felt my magical energy dwindle, the mechanics of my body strain and begin to fail…..I quickly rushed forward and turned just as the door burst open and fall from its hinges.

This is the last pocket of resistance

There is only one Dwemmer citizen.

''No doubt there is an escape tunnel. Search the premise. Leave this one alive, we will question it.''

Several automations strode into the room and started to scan the area with their life signs scanners.

I held my breath, as two kept their glowing purple weapons on me, their faces emotionless.

''Scans are inconclusive. The superstructure is too extensive to be certain of the direction of fleeing enemies.''

One of the two facing me lowered her weapon and stepped forward.

''Reveal the direction of fleeing entities. Your death will be delayed by two weeks.''

I smiled, already knowing I couldn’t speak due to the amount of blood in my lungs.

The creature scanned my body and suddenly stabbed me with an apparatus.

''This one was attempting to expire before interrogation. Begin life-saving measures to ensure proper data extraction.''

The other automations sprung into action and started to inject me with medicines, saline, and artificial blood to ensure I would last long enough…

Yes, that’s it I thought with glee. Keep it up, this is perfect.

At last they stopped and I screamed as I felt pain cascade throughout my body.

Interrogation technique at level one; reveal the direction of the fleeing enemies and your death will be delayed by three weeks.

I laughed, but immediately started to scream again as their magics and tech cascaded through my body again

The moments started to warble and fade, and I forgot what level of interrogation they were at….but I couldn’t do it anymore….I just prayed they got far enough to avoid the phase pulse.

“Okay! Okay!” I cried out, “I’ll tell you!”

I panted, crying and trembling. I looked up at their emotionless faces and wondered for the last of many times…..why did this happen? Who started the war? Were there any survivors of the Velkar? Or did their mindless creations kill them too?

“Here, let me show you.” I whispered and held out our greatest technological advancement; the Phased Rift Device.

A brilliant light flared, dissolving all the details of my sight, dissolving the programming of those soulless automations.... dissolving the last moments of Kyle....

I gasped as I jumped up and looked at the automation on the table.

I catapulted into action. I had to make sure she didn’t wake up, or- or…..

' Power supply at one hundred percent. System restore partially successful. Resuming current mission…..scanning…. '

The automation sat up and looked directly into my eyes.

' Scan complete. One entity in range. '

I screamed and slammed the door shut and ran off into the cold wind and rain. I had to get away! I had to warn others about the devastation this thing was capable of...even ONE of these things could bring down an entire nation if it chose to, and-

I cried out as my foot fell into a loose pile of debris and my leg sunk to my knee. I turned back and noticed the automation walking steadily to me.

“No! Stay away!” I cried out, seeing its eyes glow with an eerie blue light.

I felt the horror and pain of Kyle and myself wash over me twofold. The death and devastation he personally saw. The loved ones that were killed….the utter loss of an entire civilization to the point where they weren’t even remembered! And now….I was the one who doomed my current world to the same fate!

“Stay away!” I cried out, “Go away! Don’t kill me! Please!”

The automation strode closer, and without skipping a beat or stride, knelt- pulled my leg out and helped me up and stopped, looking down upon me, partially shielding me from the rain and wind. I started to crawl away and cried out as I felt a jagged piece of metal pierce clean through my hand.

The Automation knelt again. And, with gentle fingers and motions, activated her apparatus I was all too familiar with. But she ran it over my hand, and, when she was done- kissed the thin scar that remained.

She raised her blue eyes to me and stared into mine with an expression of deep sorrow and regret.

“....you….saved….my life….” She whispered. “Mercy….I know what this is….but I never knew what it meant. Thank you, master.”

“Master?”

Before my eyes I saw lines of code filter down my enhanced vision. I saw her perceptions of being connected to me as her system was restored, had a profound impact on her…..her being able to see my own memories, Kyle’s memories. To feel the terror and despair of battle..... fighting and killing…..and realizing the senselessness of it all...of war….

But more than that; she now had the understanding of the pain it brought to all….so much pain….that even a human could understand it…..and now…..an automation that was created for the singular purpose of war and death, understood it as well….

“ Please ….” She cried, sobbing and shaking her head. “ I don’t want to hurt anyone….I could never hurt you or anyone !” She said, her voice filled with sorrow, her expression sliding into the lines of regret and remorse. “ I don’t want to fight….you saved my life….please….let me stay with you... ”

The last of her code flashed before my eyes, revealing….not a soulless killing machine, but rather….for lack of a better word….. A scared and lonely woman who woke in a time and place completely alien to her....a woman who saw me as the man who saved her life....a man she saw as her husband.

I exhaled and held her close.

“Of course you can stay with me.” I breathed, my mouth suddenly covered with hers. Her tongue teasing my own to meet and embrace her own.

Her code scrambled before my eyes, rearranging into strange runic symbols of happiness, joy and love. I kissed her again and she helped me back to my lab.

I sat down as she closed the door and smiled at me. “Thank you, Master. I love you!”

I smiled in return. “Call me Jason, okay?”