- We cut back to Vic in Sam’s apartment, a wall has been blown out, leading to a two-story drop, and the place has been wrecked.
- Hunter and Sasha are still playing with Legos on the floor
- Victor is distraught
- Pterodactyl: You created Skull? That’s insane! What do you mean you created Skull? You trained him??
- Sam: Hahahaa, slow down there kid, take a seat. Do you want some Meth?
- Pterodactyl: No thanks
- Sam: More for me
- Sam snorts a line of cocaine off the kitchen island
- Sam comes and sits down on a stained chair across from the couch that Vic sits on.
- Pterodactyl: What do you mean you created Skull?
- Sam: First things first, Skull is not a man, he is a Machine
- Pterodactyl: A machine?
- Sam: An AI, to be precise, an Artificial Intelligence
- Victor’s small, British mind is blown by this information
- Sam: Allow me to explain. You see, back in the 90s, I had a dream to create Artificial Intelligence, but it’s only in the past couple of years that that dream has been realized
- Sam: You see, a couple of years ago we discovered… an asset... that greatly advanced our research by years.
- Sam subtly looks at Hunter
- Pterodactyl: An asset?
- Sam: Yes… an asset… An already existing Artificial intelligence from the ’40s, created by a madman
- Sam: I was put on a team to exploit and reverse engineer the asset, to create the world's first artificial intelligence that would work only for us… And eventually, we were able to do just that…
- Sam shivers slightly
- Sam: But what we created… lacked a soul… it lacked a heart… it was just the cold bones of the original
- Pterodactyl: Skull
- Sam: Exactly
- Pterodactyl: … so is that why it’s called skull?
- Sam: Exactly! It’s called Skull because it’s an Artificial thinking machine, and a skull is where the brain is held, and this skull holds the biggest brain you’ve ever seen! … and also, because it is smart, but doesn’t have the flesh of humanity!… like… all bones, and brain, but no heart… Yknow?
- Pterodactyl: What the heck are you talking about?? You didn't just name it after you? Isn’t your last name Skull?
- Sam: It can be both!
- Pterodactyl: Alright, Whateva! But how can you protect me from this thing?
- Sam thinks
- Sam: Well… Assuming it’s still running off the same program I gave it all those years ago… The only thing you would need to do is remove your name from its list. That would cause it to no longer see you as a target, and render you and your family practically invisible.
- Pterodactyl: Ok! So how do I remove my name from the list?
- Sam: Well, see that’s the hard part… there's only one thing on this planet that can theoretically access its database and remove your name... The original asset the machine was based on… the original AI
- Pterodactyl: And where is the original AI?
- Hunter makes a “Bwishhh” sound with his mouth as he pretends to blow Sasha’s character up.
- Sam: It’s… safe…
- Pterodactyl: Well, that doesn’t help me much, does it? Bloody Britain, god save the Queen? Fish'n'chips
- Sam looks thoughtful, then determined
- Hunter looks up from his Legos
- Victor looks puzzled
- Pterodactyl: What? Where are you going?
- Sam: We’re taking you to Skull’s database, and we’ll see what we can do from there
- Victor looks confused and annoyed
- Pterodactyl: What with the kid? We can’t take a kid to fight-
- Just then, a missile hits the only part of the wall that isn’t broken and blows the apartment up.
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