27 A Trade and A Trip
Pluto starts to hover and the Cat Eye jewel on the end blinks.
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Chaos: What is it brat? I have been bored lately. Though when you blasted that guy in the Guild... that was pretty funny.
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Slate: Well good thing I have an answer to your bordum. But first... exactly how "All Powerful" are you?
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Chaos: I dont understand the question... Im ALL powerful. I made everything in the universe.
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Slate: Then... Can you restore Hades for me?
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Chaos: I could, but why would I? Why would you believe I couldnt?
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Slate: I just wanted to make sure you could for fill my reward. I would like to trade you over a week of enjoyment and entertainment for the restoration of Hades.
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Chaos: ... That would be a trade I would make. What will you provide as payment?
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Slate: Before we get to that... I need to speak to you face to face. No more knife talk.
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I fall through the floor. I then become weightless and realize im not in Kansas anymore. I have returned to a completely white space and there is a Black Sphere consistently squirming. Eww... His form looks like a giant bloodclot.
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Slate: Do you have a Human form? You will need it to enjoy my part of the bargain.
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Chaos: Hurry yo. You are testing my patience...
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The bloodclot turns into a copy of me with black hair and clothes.
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Slate: Ok. Do you know what a Video game is?
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Chaos: Ah, I am sorry to tell you but I have already played and finished each and every game ever created.
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Slate: Oh really? How about Super Ma*io 64?
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Chaos had a smug look on his(my?) face before he paused and looked down in deep thought. After about 3 minutes he looks at me with wide eyes
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Chaos: No I havent. I have played every game that has ever and will ever exist but that is not one of them. No such game exists.
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Slate: Well, You are not wrong. Can you make a materia that I can put the game in? I played it until it was burned inyo my brain when I was in my former world.
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Chaos threw a Clear Materia at me. His eyes are shining and locked onto the Orb.
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I hold the Materia in my hand and focus on the classic game. After 20 minutes... The Materia shines. A 64 ontop of a red and white mushroom glow inside it.
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Slate: Im done. Time to trade.
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Chaos: Restoration of Hades for the game correct?
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Slate: Not yet. Ill let you play the first level for free. I have another request though. I want a Materium that can store an unlimited amount of data in the shape of a cellphone. It needs Adaptive ports and must be chargable my magic. Ill give you the full game after. Deal?
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Chaos: No need, Here you go. Give me the entire game.
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A black phone floats infront of me with a blue crystal on the back. The 64 Materia has vanished from my hand and Chaos is already playing it. I start going through my super external hard drive. Chaos actually made it a working cellphone.
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I start watching Chaos play and I must say... He sucks. He has died 31 times. He still has a huge smile on his face.
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Chaos: This game is the hardest one I have ever played!! I keep losing! This is great!!
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... Thats hard for you?! Fool, It will blow your mind when I give you Dark *ouls. But first...
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Slate: Chaos: I need you to return me to my world about 200 years in the future.
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Chaos: Excuse me?
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Chaos stops playing and looks at me enraged for some reason.
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Chaos: Is my world not good enough for you? Why do you want to return? You have not cought the Impostor yet.
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Slate: Your misunderstanding me. I want to return to earth briefly then home here. I need to retrieve some information and id like to see how my family ended up. I would only be gone for a day at most if this storage device can download at unbelievable speeds.
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Chaos: What information are you trying to obtain? What is in it for me?
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Slate: 3 new games that you wouldnt be able to finish if you played them for a month straight. I cant tell you what information though. Do we have a deal?
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Chaos: You will be unable to talk to anyone or change anything. I will send you to the information center of the world you are originally from. You will only be allowed there for 1 hour.
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Slate: That is fine. I am ready to go whenever you are ready to send me.
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Chaos: Your hour begins now. Be ready to pay me when you return.
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My vision starts to blur and when it returns to normal, I am in a freezing room with giant servers within. I rush to a terminal and plug my super phone into it. My phone downloads everything within the servers in seconds.
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I hope I got some super high end future weapon tech schematics to take back. I doubt there is an Internet connection to this place.
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???: Requesting new location information.
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Dafuk?? Did I just heard a monotone robot voice?
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Slate: Umm hello? Is anyone there?
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???: Affirmative. Prototype A.I. Designated Alpha.G.68431. Are you my new User?
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Slate: User? Where are you? Are you in these servers?
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Alpha: Negative. The servers within this facility no longer house my core systems. The core systems of Prototype A.I. Alpha.G.68431 Have been relocated into the hand held storage unit C.S.1. Requesting Confirmation... are you my new User?
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Slate: I guess I am... My name is Slate Clean.
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Alpha: Acknowledged... User... Slate.Clean Registration Complete. What is my first directive User?
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Slate: Well... are all of your systems from these drives in my phone yet?
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Alpha: Affirmative User. All sub-systems have been relocated to C.S.1
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Slate: Ok. Is there a way to connect to the internet from within this room?
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Alpha: Negative. The Internet has been taken offline 97 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days ago. It has been replaced with the Tri-Planet Nexus. Connection to the Nexus is impossible due to the signal blockage from the protective shielding of this facility.
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Slate: Well... lets fix that. I will need you to download the entirety of the nexus into my phone once you get a signal. I know that my phone has the space... but do you have the processor power to do it in an hour?
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Alpha: Calculating... With my current OS capability... I do not possess such speed... But if I am permitted to use the data I store to learn and advance my systems... I calculate a 97% chance to complete the task.
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Slate: Ok. Focus on all Technology except nuclear. I want every video game downloaded, every manga, book, movie, schematics of weapons, music, TV show... EVERYTHING. If you find something that you are not sure what to do with... Download it.
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Alpha: Understood. I shall begin once a stable link is established.
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Slate: Ok then... I raise my hand to the roof of the building...[Thundaga]!
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The room explodes in color. The low roof actually reflected my Thundaga and caused it to ricochet. I start to shiver. I watch as the lightning starts to melt the room and caused the empty servers to explode. The explosion removes the roof, walls, and most of the floor. I see the northern lights in the night sky above me when the smoke clears. Oh crap... Well... I guess there is no harm in running into anyone up here. I look around and realize im in what use to me a military bunker.
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Alpha: Connection Established: Beginning Prime Oblective.
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Alpha goes silent. On my screen... i see a progress bar at 1%. After 20 minutes... it made it to 4%. 10 minutes later... it was at 16%. After 40 minutes of Alpha downloading the world... it finished.
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Alpha: System Update in Progress.
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As Alpha was updating... I walked around the abandoned base and found a functional computer. The password to unlock it was password... somethings never change. I looked up my family's history. My mother got remarried, Both my brothers had familys. They also had a picture of me smiling ontop of my game collection. Every year on my birthday, they added a new game to my collection and took a new picture with their growing families.
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I will not cry. I will not cry... I might cry a little...
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Alpha?: Update Finalization in progress. Please Choose a new Designation and Gender for vocal tone.
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Slate: Well... What gender would you like to sound as?
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Alpha?: Requesting a female voice. My Original programmer was a Russian Doctor who was killed after she refused to weaponize me for the Government. The G in my former Designation was to categorize my lethally level. They range from S - G with G being the lowest.
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Slate: Then your new name will start with G. You are the technology mind of earth... How is Gaia for your name?
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Alpha?: ... Designation Accepted. Alpha.G.68431 Will be changed into Gaia.00001.
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Gaia: ERROR. User, Gaia.00001 is being attacked by multiple other A.I. for her data. Request for permission to retaliate.
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Slate: Gaia, You have permission to defend yourself. We are about to leave this universe so show them what you can do. Do not kill anyone but use them to advance yourself. Those A.I. might be connected to special data you couldnt normally get to through the Nexus. Get what you can.
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Gaia: Understood. Sub-System [Counter-Harvest] created and launched.
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3 minutes later... Gaia crippled the attacker A.I.s and looted the secure servers they lived in.
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Gaia: User. My Defensive actions are completed. Conducting system maintenance... ALERT. Viruses found. Purging Viruses... Unable to purge. Requesting Directions.
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Slate: Umm... Are you still connected to another attacking A.I.?
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Gaia: Affirmative. My connection to each A.I. that attacked me is still open.
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Slate: Well... Can you download the A.I. and put the viruses into them? You would return the A.I. after.
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Gaia: Affirmative. Please choose an A.I. to absorbe.
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Slate: Thats easy...The one that attacked you first.
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Gaia: Understood.
Capture of Omega A.I. "SkyNexus"... Completed.
Integrating Viruses... Intergration Successful.
Returning SkyNexus... Completed.
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Gaia: User. Prime A.I. Gaia.00001. All Viruses purged from system. Update Completed.
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Slate: Great. We should be about ready to go.
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I wait a few minutes and my vision blurs again so I.close my eyes. When I open them again... I see Chaos still playong. He is still playing SM64 but he isnt finished with the first world yet.
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Chaos: I hope you are finished. You will not be returning to earth. The creator of that universe is mad. Pay up. I am almost finished with this game.
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... excuese me? No your not.
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Slate: I need 3 more Materia orbs for the games but you havent even finished the first level of 64.
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Chaos: Here you go. You are wrong. I have almost finished this game. I have 5 Stars.
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I put 3 more games in the Materia. I ask for the controller and pause it to see how many stars he has.
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Slate: Ok. ill bet that I will unlock the next level. If I show you that you are still in the first level... You restore Hades. If I cant... 2 more games. Deal?
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He regretted the deal almost right away.
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Chaos: Here you go. Now be gone. Im enjoying my self.
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Chaos waved his hand and blasted me back to my room.
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I try to call Hades but I get no response. ... Maybe hes sleeping? Ill follow his lead.
I fell asleep in my room. Long day ahead tomorrow.
