CLHOE: 4
“A Tall Tale Of A Replica”
Chapter 4
“Glasses on Marvin” says Chloe as she pulls her pistol from her side. A blue hue covering her face and eyewear reflecting from the neon.
“Game time” giggles Marvin.
The matrix of the program is scene through the eyewear as agents begin shooting towards them. The bullets fly by like lasers whipping past Chloe and Marvin.
Rebel Rebel by David Bowie is heard behind her where Marvin is playing air guitar. He wears his eyewear securely attached to his face. He opens his computer and smiles.
“I have a few surprises in store for them Chloe”
“I figured that my friend”
From the sub code division Chloe could see what looked like to be trends and strands of agents. Further then her eye could see.
Marvin types furiously once again and winks back at Chloe.
“Snap, Popple and crunch” laughs Marvin as he types
Chloe thinks to herself that perhaps Marvin is a bit of a show off but brushes it off . Good for him, she also thought.
“I changed the addresses of all grids. Even sub levels and surface data will be affected. “
“In other words you scrambled our locations. “
She stopped and thought about the brilliance in Marvin’s surprise, but She also thought about the importance of staying on track. Now they were lost.
“Where are we Marvin?”
Above Marvin Chloe could see the main processing clock. It had paused many centuries ago and has not advanced ever since.
“We are in a sub code but not one that is currently being used. It’s part of the code that processed the running clock of time that the system was designed to maintain.”
“Marvin, what exactly is time?”
“Well for one thing, we have more time now because of my handy work”
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“Yes. Thank you.”
Marvin took his eyewear off and sat down with his rubix cube. He looked at Chloe.
“Chloe, time is an illusion. Unless you are a human. When you are human supposably you are deleted after the program finds you useless or outdated. Humans cannot be modified or upgraded. Do you understand?”
Chloe looks down sad and then looks up at Marvin.
“ but I want to be a real girl. And I know that the curator can make me real. The answers and the way out are beyond the surface data.”
Marvin understood where Chloe was going with all this. He anticipated this.
It was once said that the sole curator was created by itself . AI technology created its own artificial world and was then developed with algorithms and AI built intel.
But Chloe had a different belief. She believed the sole creator was a human being. That he or she was sending the program commands.
Marvin responds with empathy
“You will be the most beautiful human being Chloe.” Marvin blushes
“Chloe that belief is just a myth. And besides, you will most surely die if you become a human. I don’t want to lose you. You are my best friend.”
Marvin presses play on his silver boom box.
Candy by Iggy Pop plays and Chloe looks with a smile and approval towards his choice of music.
Marvin spoke of the tall tales of a universe created by a human being. On how time stopped when humans went extinct.
Apparently you could communicate with the humans at the time. Talking and interacting with them.
In the 21st century there was a plague that killed all the humans. We had to set commands and develop the system without human intervention. It was found that with one element taken out of the equation, our world would become the perfect program.
That element was human error.
“Well no one is perfect” Chloe says with a tint of sarcasm
“We are” Marvin says
It was true. We were perfect thought Chloe.
“I want to know how it is to feel. I want to know who I am.”
Marvin looks at her.
“You are perfect Chloe”
