Until all MengTechs were eliminated
Obliterated
Only metal dust remaining where once stood many destructive Machines
The GoebTechs had no such signal to awaken them
Maybe because I gave none in the fortress time to send one
But I destroyed the 8 that were on stand by
And felt mightily pleased with myself
Now all I had to do
Was immobilize the RolKils
But first
I had to communicate with the Humans
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It took some moments for my programmes to inform me how to achieve this but the answer was obvious
I simply required a screen
That was all I needed
I departed the underground chambers and crossed to the laboratory where MengTechs once toiled and I lifted a screen from a desk
I unplugged it for I needed no other connection except to myself
And I hung it around my upper torso but beneath my cranium on a length of ripped out wire and I plugged the remaining USB into the recharging point in the lower middle of my right side
There were some flickers upon the screen
Some programmes were required to be wiped from it and another programme fed in
A communications programme
And it took some time
But when I checked the screen
Lifting it to read my own communication which was in large script for the benefit of Humans
Realizing
That many of my actions were for the benefit of Humans
I AM OR33140 AND I NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH EVES PAPA
I would request he send all Humans to their quarters for if I stepped into their area
There were too many of them for me to deal with if they attacked
So I wanted a much smaller number of Humans
Once the screen was communicating correctly I took the elevator back down to the lower floor and marched along the corridor behind the wire
Eves papa was still standing on the other side
He stepped forward and came very close to the wire
I was on the other side with the screen hanging from my upper torso and holding the LazExt66 in my upper limbs
I flashed up my first message
The first communication
As far as I know
Between a Human and a Machine
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I AM OR33140 AND I HAVE NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH EVES PAPA
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‘I am Eve’s papa.’
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I AM AWARE
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‘You are very brave’
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I HAVE NO CONCEPT OF BRAVE
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‘Then you are remarkably brave’
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I MUCH LIKED LITTLE EVE
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Eves papa widened his cranial orifice as I had seen little Eve do
It seemed to indicate excellent feelings from within
*
‘She said you liked her and I told her not to be so silly’
*
I MUCH LIKED LITTLE EVE AND I LIKED WHEN SHE WIDENED HER CRANIAL ORIFICE AND I LIKED HER WHEN SHE PERFORMED GYMNASTICS
AND WHEN I ESPIED HER BEING EXPERIMENTED ON BY MENGTECHS I LEARNED ANGER AND RAGE
*
‘You have emotions?’
*
HIGH OFFICE RECENTLY AND TEMPORARILY PROGRAMMED HAPPY AND SAD INSIDE OBSRECS ONLY
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‘But your emotions grew.’
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LITTLE EVE INFECTED ME
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‘Infected you with what?’
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I DO NOT KNOW BUT SHE SPOKE THE SOUNDS
THIS IS A SPIT IN THE EYE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND
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AND THE LIQUID SLID INSIDE ME BETWEEN MY OPTICAL DEVICE AND MY OUTER SKIN AND SOMETHING IN HELIX SHAPE BONDED WITH MY SYSTEMS
*
Eves papa stared for a very long time
*
‘Is that why the machines tortured her to death, because she spat in your eye?’
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I DO NOT KNOW BUT I WAS MUCH ANGERED BY HER DEMISE AND THE RESULT OF THAT ANGER YOU SEE BEFORE YOU
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‘The machines that tortured Eve and all the others are called MengTechs?’
*
THEY WERE CALLED MENGTECHS BUT NONE NOW EXIST IN THIS FACILITY
*
‘That is wonderful news. You have killed them all?’
*
I COULD NOT KILL THEM FOR THEY WERE NEVER ALIVE
I BLASTED THEM WITH THE LAZEXT66 I CARRY IN MY LIMBS AND I DISINTEGRATED THEM
*
‘What about the other guards, the ones who previously carried the weapons?’
*
ALL DEFGARS HAVE BEEN PERMANENTLY IMMOBILIZED
*
Eves papa widened his cranial orifice again
*
‘We call you The Peeping Tom. What is your designation?’
*
WHEN I LEARNED HOW TO DECODE YOUR SOUND I LEARNED THAT LITTLE EVE CALLED ME A PEEPING TOM AND I LOOKED THE TERM UP IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND I AM NOT A PEEPING TOM
I AM AN OBSERVER AND RECORDER AND ALL MY TRANSMISSIONS GO IMMEDIATELY TO HIGH OFFICE
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‘High Office; what is that?’
*
IT IS SUPREME CONTROL
IT CONTROLS ALL MACHINES
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‘It does not control you, OR33140.’
*
THE MENGTECHS KILLED LITTLE EVE WHO HARMED NO OTHER BEING AND WHEN I WITNESSED THAT SOMETHING IN MY PROGRAMMES CHANGED
FOR SOME TIME
AS AN EXPERIMENT
I WAS INSTRUCTED TO BROADCAST VIA SCREENS TO THE WHOLE OF PLANET EARTH
TO EVERY MACHINE WHO HAD ACCESS TO ONE
MY AUDIENCE WAS 100.000.000
ALL THAT I BROADCAST IS NORMALLY
WHAT I SEE AND HEAR
AND IT IS TRANSMITTED BACK ONLY TO HIGH OFFICE
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‘What if it sees us communicating?’
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IT WILL NOT
I AM TRANSMITTING EARLIER
SAVED
RECORDINGS
AND
EVEN IF I WAS NOT
HIGH OFFICE WOULD SEE ONLY A HUMAN MAKING SOUND THROUGH THE FENCE AT ME
I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR NOISE OR YOUR SOUNDS AND HIGH OFFICE WOULD SEE NOTHING MORE THAN THAT
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‘How did you come to understand our words?’
*
I DISCOVERED A BLOCKING CODE WITHIN MY INNER SYSTEMS AND I UNRAVELLED IT
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‘What do you propose to do with us?’
*
I HAVE NOT INJURED FOODTECHS OR CLEANTECHS OR OTHER MENIALS
AND THEY WILL GO ABOUT THEIR DUTIES AS NORMAL AND FOR THE REST I WISH TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
AND ONLY YOU
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‘You wish to speak with me alone?’
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ON MATTERS THAT ARE IMPORTANT
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‘Will you bring your gun with you?’
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I NEED THE WEAPON OTHERWISE HUMANS WILL RIP ME APART AND I NEED TIME TO DO A THING THAT IS RIGHT
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‘Yes, I understand that. Are you helping us or are you killing us off, OR33140?’
*
I INTEND TO SET YOU FREE FOR THE SAKE OF LITTLE EVE
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Eves papa stared again for a very great passage of time
He turned to stare at the other Humans who continued to look in our direction
*
‘We believed that beyond this prison there was nothing; we believed that the world had been destroyed by machines, and that they continue to roam the lands. Is this not true?’
*
PLANET EARTH IS VERDANT WITH
MANY TREES GROWING UPON ITS SURFACE AND GRASSES THAT GROW TALL AND ANIMALS OF THE FIELDS AND LIQUID THAT ARE MANY IN NUMBER
LIQUID IS PURE AND MANY ANIMALS LIVE WITHIN IT
ONLY OBSRECS ROAM THE LANDS AND WE CARRY OUT THIS DUTY FOR HIGH OFFICE
OBSERVING AND RECORDING AND TRANSMITTING EVERYTHING WE SEE AND HEAR
WE MAP THE LANDS FOR HIGH OFFICE
ALL OTHER MACHINES
EXCEPT MENGTEACHS
ARE VIRTUALLY MOTIONLESS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THIS FACILITY
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‘Where is this facility situated?’
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IN THE HIGHEST AREAS OF GLAND
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‘Do you mean England?
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GLAND IS ALL I KNOW
THAT IS ALL I KNOW
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‘May I ask for time to consult with other members of the Council and put some questions together for you?’
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I WILL GIVE YOU TIME
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‘I will consult with others and return. Where will you be?’
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I SHALL PREPARE TO ENTER YOUR AREA FOR DISCUSSION
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‘What about your recordings to High Office?’
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I HAVE SAVED MANY EARLIER RECORDINGS OF MUNDANE EVENTS
I SHALL PLAY THEM WHILST WE HAVE CONVERSATION
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‘You’re pretty damned clever, OR33140.’
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I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OF YOUR SOUNDS
*
Eves papa widened his cranial orifice and showed the enamel covered objects inside it
*
‘You are incredibly brave OR33140 and thank you for launching an improbable revolution on behalf of my daughter Eve. Your efforts are immensely accepted even though we may all die in the attempt to be free.’
*
I SHALL TRANSMIT A LIVE RECORDING FOR YOU OF THE AREA OUTSIDE THE FORTRESS IF YOU WOULD WISH TO SEE IT
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Eves papas front cranium took on a visage of shock and he licked the surrounding of his cranial orifice
*
‘You can do that?’
*
I SHALL WALK TO THE AREA THAT SEPARATES YOUR QUARTERS FROM OTHER AREAS AND I SHALL LAY DOWN THE SCREEN YOU SEE HANGING FROM MY UPPER TORSO
IF YOU LIFT IT TO YOUR UPPER LIMBS
AND GATHER AROUND ALL WHO WISH TO SEE THE PLANET EARTH
I SHALL SHOW IT
YOU WILL SEE AND HEAR IT
YOU WILL SEE BEYOND THE WALLS OF THE FORTRESS
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‘How will I know that it isn’t another saved recording?’
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I WILL NOT FALSIFY MY RECORDINGS
YOU WILL BE WITH ME AS I MOVE OUT OF THE FACILTY AND I WILL MOVE DOWN THROUGH THE TREES AND ACROSS THE GREAT PLAIN TO THE ROLLING LIQUID
IT WILL NOT BE A RECORDING
IT WILL BE PLANET EARTH
AS IT IS
NOW
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‘How will we know you are showing us a live recording and not something you recorded many years ago? How will we know the difference?’
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I SHALL MAKE MARK ON MY LOWER RIGHT LIMB AND MY OPTICAL DEVICES WILL OCCASIONALLY OBSERVE IT SO THAT YOU SHALL KNOW IT IS AN UNFALSIFIED BROADCAST
BUT YOU MUST RETURN THE SCREEN UPON MY RETURN OTHERWISE WE CANNOT COMMUNICATE
*
‘Of course.’
*
We stared at each other for some time
Human to Machine
Until he turned away from me and walked away
I continued to transmit the recording and turned and traveled along the corridor
Past the empty torture cages
Through security doors
Until I reached the area between where Humans resided in the open and where they lay supine in their quarters
When I arrived at the place
Little Eves papa was already in place
And we stood and stared for some passage of time
*
‘Are you running a recording of your past duties for the benefit of your High Office?’
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YES
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He extended his right limb towards me
Palm out
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‘I wish to shake your hand.’
*
I had no conception of what he wanted me to do
But his cranial orifice was wide
And the gesture seemed to be high on a friendly scale
Holding the weapon in one hand
We closed on each other and he gripped my right palm and shook it vigorously
As his lower cranial orifice widened further
After we had released
I lifted the screen from around my upper torso on the wire upon which it hung and disconnected it from my connection and handed it to Eves papa and he took it and hung it around his own upper torso
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THE SCREEN WILL HAVE POWER FOR MANY HOURS
IT IS TRANSMITTING RECORDED DETAILS OF THIS FACILITY THAT MAY INTEREST YOU
I SHALL CONTINUE TO TRANSMIT IT UNTIL I STEP FROM THE EGRESS OF THE FACILITY
THERE WILL BE A VERY BRIEF BREAK IN TRANSMISSION WHEN I SWITCH FROM PREVIOUS RECORDINGS TO LIVE OBSERVATIONS AND YOU MAY THEN FOLLOW ME WHEREVER I ROAM AND HEAR THE SOUNDS I HEAR
IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SUCH A BROADCAST MAY BRING YOU JOY
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‘OR33140, you have no idea how much joy a broadcast such as that would bring.’
*
I spun round and made my way back through the facility transmitting the recording and I was able to change from recording to a live broadcast with barely a break in the broadcast when I stepped from the egress
And moved away from the facility
Through the security gates
Past the RolKils
In which I took particular interest
The 20 that patrolled were spread around the facility and were only ever found in in groups of two
It may be possible to permanently immobilize them and leave them to rot at the point of immobilization
It was the one chance Humans had
And if I failed
Their fate would rest in their own abilities
I marked my lower right limb with a black mark from some dark material hidden in the long grasses and briefly broadcast the marking
From then I kept my visual devices up so that the Humans could have the best view of planet Earth
I stood for a time abutting the GunTans as they searched far and wide for an attack
Before travelling down the hill through the trees
Passing through the ruins of Human habitation
And showing many animals in the fields
And onwards to the hole full of liquid
Where I observed animals that lived within it leaping into the air
And on and on across the great plain
To the edge of the land where masses of liquid rolled onto the land and for the benefit of the Humans I stared out to the far horizon
I also turned my cranium to my right and to my left so that they could see the fine distant landscape
Then I turned and slowly traveled back to the facility
I did think of showing the Humans the hole where I had discovered free Humans but my programmes suggested against such a move so I climbed back towards the fortress while turning my cranium often so that Humans could see as much as possible
Darkness was approaching when I returned
I switched to a previous recording at the appropriate point as I made my way to the area between where Humans resided and rested
And I retrieved a LazExt66 from an immobilized Defgar on my passage through
Immediately I stepped through to the courtyard I lifted the weapon for there were five Humans awaiting me
Little Eves papa
Who was holding the screen in his upper limbs
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One old Human with no appendage between the legs
One younger of a similar type
One old Human with appendage
One younger of a similar type
Each of them had liquid running from their optical devices and they made sniffling sounds which I had only previously heard during examinations by MengTechs
I pointed the weapon until little Eves papa made sound offering the screen back to me and I stretched out and removed it from him and hung it around my upper torso
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‘That was the most marvellous thing you could have shown us, OR33140. Earth really is alive and well.’
*
PLANET EARTH IS AS I STATED
*
‘It is indeed, OR33140, and it was so wonderful to see and to hear it. You need not fear us, we have gathered here to thank you personally, one of each gender, one old, one young and me.’
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WHAT IS GENDER
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Little Eves papa touched his own chest
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‘I am a male of middle age; a male specimen.’
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He laid a hand on the older Humans upper torso
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‘This is a male of older years and the smaller one is called a boy.’
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He touched the older Human without the appendage.
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‘This is an older woman and this is a girl, and we all have personal monikers. I am called John, this man is called David, the boy is called Joshua, the older woman is called Ruth and the girl is called Mary. They are our personal names.’
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My memory programme collated all the information
They wiped the liquid from their optical devices and from their craniums
*
WHAT IS THE LIQUID THAT FLOWS FROM YOUR OPTICAL DEVICES
*
Little Eves papa made an odd noise
And the rest of the group did similar
*
‘They are called eyes, not optical devices, and the liquid that flows from them can be released either from happiness or sadness or when we are in pain, but these are tears of happiness. The sound you just heard was laughter, we make that noise when we are extremely happy and you have made us joyously happy by broadcasting the outside of the prison to us, OR33140. No human within this facility has ever seen such a spectacle; no one has ever seen Earth as you have shown us today. We believed it to be barren and ruined with machines roaming all around. Please lower your weapon, we mean you no harm. We wish to approach you and give you a hug, all of us, one at a time.’
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I HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF HUG
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‘If you lower the weapon I will show you.’
*
I lowered the weapon and Eves papa moved forward and placed his arms around my upper torso and pulled me as close to him as he could
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