1 The Chase

A man was walking through the long corridor, with a lab coat and glasses. His nametag showed his identities as Mason Gartner, an undercover agent tasked to destroy or disrupt project Prometheus. He doesn't know what it is, but he'll do it anyway cause it's an order.

He stopped in front of a dead-end and started to press specific sections of the wall.

*Wooooosh

The walls suddenly retreated and moved to the side, revealing a dark room. As Marco walks into it, the lights brighten the room. The room contained a computer station and some kind of container in front of the station. Marco sat on the only chair in the room, behind a futuristic computer station in the middle of the room. He turned on the station and started searching for project Prometheus.

[Ding

File Found: Project Prometheus

Description:

As the Robots/Machine are Governed by Advance AI Damocles. This project aimed to replace Damocles with Theos Lab's AI called Prometheus or outright destroy Damocles.

Progress: 60%

The Prometheus physical chip is complete, made from extremely durable material, and coated in a layer shock absorber. The AI algorithm is not complete, incapable of making its own decision. Further work is needed…

Menu:

1. Open Container

2. Exit

]

"What the fuck…" He muttered in shock. As Marco continue to read, the angrier he became. As described in the description, machines around the world are governed by Damocles, an advance AI. By replacing it, they could gain control of all the machines for whatever the hell their purpose. But, if something went wrong…Marco shuddered in terror.

He then proceeded to open the container, took the chip, and started running in the direction he came in.

*WEE-oww WEE-oww.

The sound of a loud siren echoed throughout the building. Marco's expression didn't even change, he just started walking a little faster. He exited the building and started walking towards the exit of the city.

*Bang

Suddenly, a gunshot rang from on top of the building, hitting Marco's body.

"Cough…ughhh" He then started running between the buildings to avoid the shooter's line of sight.

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On the cold dead of night, at the edge of the city.

Mason is seen running down a dark narrow street, toward a crossroads, lit only by the occasional flashing street lamp. The holographic shop sign illuminates the surroundings, making the details of Mason's face clearly visible. With brown hair, a rather handsome face, and cold eyes.

*Pant..pant...

He ran with his hands on the left side of his body, blood dripping between his fingers, leaving a faint trail of blood behind. He turned left at an intersection, trying to get out of this futuristic but dark city.

Not long after he left, five men were seen following his trail of blood. With a man in a suit and black coat covering him leading the other four, he walked in front of the four men. The four men were wearing some sort of combat attire. The triangular logo can be seen on the back of the uniform, with one mechanical hand from below with the index finger pointing up, the normal hand pointing down almost touching the other hand, and THEOS Lab emblazoned under the triangle.

"Don't let him get away…I want him dead tonight." A voice said from the earpiece of the man in the suit.

"Yes sir, I'll see to it." The man answered.

"Let's speed things up, I don't want him getting out of the city."

The man said to the other four men, and they started running.

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Droplets of water start falling from the sky, dark clouds covered the moon, making the night darker than it already is.

The Brown-haired man was limping to the outside the city, barely getting past the gate. His body is tired, with short breaths, and the wet clothes slowing him down even more.

"This is madness, a bunch of madmen…trying to replace the main AI with one of their own? Insane…" He muttered as he crossed the bridge outside the city when suddenly...

*Vrooom Vroooom

Two black Humvee stopped behind him with their headlights shone upon him. The man in a grey suit and five other men got out of the car.

"You can't run away Marco, you saw something you shouldn't have." He said to Marco, the brown-haired man.

"So those are true…my God…you're insane Holden, did anybody ever told you that?"

"Go back, I'll handle this myself. " Holden said to the other four.

"Yes sir"x5

"So project Prometheus is true… You're playing God, Holden. What if your AI broke free of your control?? The EXTINCTION OF MANKIND and the birth of a new race as the consequences." Marco shouted.

Holden only said "Hahahaha of course I have my measure, do you think I will do it without a backup plan? Now now, where's that chip you stole eh?. That thing is important for my plans."

"Ptui…I fucking ate it, taste like shit. What can you do about it huh?"

Holden walked to Marco and started choking Marco while lifting him over the bridge easily with one hand.

"Heh…I can make another one, it'll only delay my plans for some time. " Holden said with an evil grin.

'Fuck, didn't think of that, I thought it was extremely hard to make another one. Sigh…at least I delayed their plans.' Marco thought.

Marco wanted to curse Holden's previous seven generations out loud, but his throat can't produce any more sound as only 'agh-agk-ahk' sound that came out. His energy started running out, and his struggle became non-existence. His vision slowly fades to black starting from the corner of his eyes. All he can feel at the moment was the sensation of his body falling to the river underneath the bridge as Holden released his grip.

*Splash

His body hit the water, carried by the current. The city returns to its previous state, peaceful and serene as if none of this ever happened.