- >Morning rolls around; the rays of the sun landing on your face through the window give you a rude awakening.
- “Ugh, why does my window have to be right next to my bed…?”
- >You really tend to think aloud a lot. This wakes up the pony next to you. Either way you have work to do figuring out what course of action needs to be taken now.
- >“Good morning user, I hope you are well rested enough?”
- “Could have used more sleep but it’s best to start early. We need to figure out if the incident last night affected anyone else. Alright Comodo, let’s get to it.”
- >“As you wish user.”
- “Oh by the way, you don’t have to call me that, just call me Anon from now on.”
- >“As you wish Anon.”
- >Though she seems a bit happier, her voice still has the same sad tone to it. Not sure what it is but maybe she can’t really help it.
- “Alright, search up in the news to see if any incidents have occurred yet.”
- >Her eyes begin to glow a bright white changing from her previously amethyst eyes. Kinda cool, but creepy at the same time.
- “Wow that sure was fast.”
- >“I’m glad you think so, I aim to be the best I can be to provide the best browsing experience.”
- >With the way she talks it sounds like there’s no emphasis on emotions, like a machine. You’ll have to see if you can do anything about that later.
- “Aha, so there are isolated incidents already. Oh boy, I’m not so sure that’s such a good thing to have living AI’s appearing out of nowhere like this…”
- >You really should have thought that through before you said it.
- >“S-so I am not as useful to you like this…?”
- “Um, that’s not what I meant! You are plenty useful, it’s just that this is something very sudden and problems could arise with others not knowing how to deal with such…situations.”
- >You aren’t that good with words sometimes it seems. You need to think things through a bit more before saying them.
- >“O-oh ok...”
- “Hmmm, I need to think things through to see what we can do about this. Classical music helps me relax so…search for Morgenstimmung by Edvard Grieg. This first link looks good…”
- >“WARNING. Sorry Anon, this link has a virus attached to it.”
- >The sudden interruption of Comodo startles you a bit but it’s always best to take the safe route with things like this.
- “Ah alright, thanks Comodo, don’t want anything bad happening to you now. Alright just play something by Mozart.”
- >After a second or two, classical music begins playing. In all honestly you could get used to having some company like this. Quite helpful. A few minutes pass while you sit thinking.
- “Ok, so I guess since this is in the early stages there’s not much we can do but try and monitor any incidents of this nature.”
- >Your stomach growls rather loudly. Thinking about this situation made you forget about breakfast. It seems Comodo found this a bit funny as let out a tiny giggle. That was the most adorable thing you’ve heard in a while. So she can laugh then. Good to know.
- “Right, totally forgot about food. I’m sure you’re probably hungry as well so let’s go to the kitchen and see what there is.”
- >Living alone you forgot there wasn’t much food, but you did have some lettuce, apples and juice. Good thing you eat fruit for breakfast most of the time.
- “Well, there isn’t much but I have some apple and a bit of lettuce here, would you like some of that?”
- >“I’m not sure…let me check.”
- >Her eyes turn white as she stares into space; no screen is projected this time. This must be how they check the internet for themselves only. Yeah…still creepy.
- >“Ok, I’ll try some of that.”
- >You hold a peeled apple and feed it to her, cuz you know HOOVES. Then you give her some fresh OJ. She seems to enjoy the food considering the mmm’s and whatnot.
- “Hey what’s the time by the way? The power outage last night reset my clocks…man that’s annoying.”
- >“It is currently 11 o’clock in the morning. What do you plan to do today?”
- “Well, I have some errands to run unfortunately, you know buying food and stuff.”
- >She looks at you as if she would like to go with you.
- “I’m real sorry but you’re gonna have to stay here and watch the house…we can’t have too many people finding out about living AI’s just yet…”
- >You feel bad when you see her face. It’s like she had her heart broken. Though you’d like for her to enjoy other experiences, this is best – it has to be done.
- “Don’t worry, I won’t take long so find some games to play or do something to keep yourself entertained while I’m gone ok?”
- >“O-ok Anon.”
- >She doesn’t seem to talk much now that you think about. You’d wish she’d open up a bit more and try to be a bit happier. Oh well, time to get to it. You thought it best not to tell Comodo what you were gonna do before bringing back food…espionage. You take your laptop and walk out the door, locking it when you leave.
- -Comodo Icedragon POV-
- >“Hey what’s the time by the way? The power outage last night reset my clocks…man that’s annoying.”
- “It is currently 11 o’clock in the morning. What do you plan to do today?”
- >“Well, I have some errands to run unfortunately, you know buying food and stuff.”
- >You think to yourself if he would let you go with him. Maybe you can experience the world outside this house. You’d rather not be alone if you can help it.
- “I’m real sorry but you’re gonna have to stay here and watch the house…we can’t have too many people finding out about living AI’s just yet…”
- >You feel your heart sink. Well, you have to understand his situation as well. You just wish you could spend a bit more time with him.
- >“Don’t worry, I won’t take long so find some games to play or do something to keep yourself entertained while I’m gone ok?”
- “O-ok Anon.”
- >You see Anon walk out the door with his laptop in hand and hear him lock it. Well, no sense standing around for hours until he comes back, you need to think of what to do during this free time. Maybe something to make Anon acknowledge you more?
- >The house isn’t completely messy but it could be a bit cleaner.
- “Alright, I’ll clean this place up in record time and be done to do more things that will make him happy!”
- >A pony cleaning a house. Never thought something like this could happen then again, you are an AI. You wonder what made you a pony in the first place, as you think you go on Autopilot and continue cleaning without paying too much attention.
- “He said something about some corrupted code, but why manifest into a pony…?”
- >Probably because of his previous browsing history was mostly made up of the show you were based off of. Hm quite interesting.
- >Not paying attention, it was only a matter of time before you knocked over something. A small thud and a box with a cable falls in front of you from the desk you bumped into.
- “Oh! I should be more careful…wait, what’s this?”
- >Seems to be Anon’s hard drive. It might be a bad idea to check its contents…
- “I really shouldn’t…he might catch me and might get mad…wait.”
- >Maybe there might be something there that has a virus or is corrupted and you can fix it.
- “Oh yes, if there is and I fix it, he might be happy!”
- >You manage to pick it up and place the USB in your mouth.
- >Many files are found but nothing that would fit your definition of dangerous or broken.
- “Oh well…there sure are a lot of files here, mostly programming code. Restore, Back up, Freeze, Loop, none of these make any sense and I don’t know what they do so I should stop before something bad happens.”
- >Before you eject the hard drive, the name of one file catches you interest. It feels strange, like it’s not supposed to be there, like it doesn’t belong. Then again it could be you.
- “Reanimation…?”
- >You shouldn’t dwell on something like this though. You place the hard drive back on the desk and continue cleaning.
- -Anon POV-
- (You talk under your breath.) “Alright, I need to be very wary of my surroundings and see if anything is different, but do so casually. Though the chances of finding anything are very small, it doesn’t hurt to try.”
- >You begin to walk in the direction of the mall. A half an hour walk – not having a car isn’t all too great but the furthest you’ve ever needed to walk was 45min anyways so it’s not all that big of a deal for now.
- >You don’t think someone would bring a living AI to the mall, but you never know. Besides even if you don’t find anything you can buy food there killing two birds with one stone.
- >You notice it’s quite the nice day out and it seems just like every other normal sunny day. The only thing you don’t like about walking to the mall is that you have to pass by a slightly more run down part of the neighborhood, but at least there’s never any trouble.
- >After about half an hour of uneventful walking, you finally made it to the mall. You begin preparations immediately.
- “Alright, I’ll need some binoculars and something to drink…I’m kinda thirsty after that walk.”
- >You buy what you need and walk around the mall.
- “Ah mountain dew, the drink of champions…time to start looking around…casually.”
- >You think you are so sneaky, you noob, stealth isn’t your greatest skill, but you’re not all that bad at least. Then something catches your attention.
- “It can’t be…it is! An AI! In the form of a pony no less. I like this guy’s style.”
- >You can’t see the face of the guy with her because you are at a decent distance away but the pony has a red/white main and what seems to be a red letter O as the mark on her flank.
- “Is that Opera…?”
- >You think quickly on how to act in this situation. You spy a little child walking close by, parent being distracted.
- “Hey kid, can I ask ya for a favor?”
- >You pull out one of those huge lollipops you see in the candy stores from your bag. It was gonna be for Comodo, but you’ll get another one later. The kid stares wide-eyed.
- “Look, it’s simple, look over there. See that pony over there?”
- >“Ohh, it’s soooo cute!”
- >Quite the adorable squirt you met.
- “Anyways, all you have to do is pet the pony and put this in its mane without them noticing you.”
- >You produce a small microchip and hand it to the child.
- “That’s all. Simple. Here have the lollipop.”
- >“Thanks! I’d do that right away, I wanna pet the pony!”
- >Perfect. You see the kid run up to the pony and do as you instructed. The tracking code is now in place. You see the AI and user leave and after a while of nothing happening you head out as well. It has become night.
- “Huh…I really didn’t pay attention to the time; I don’t like walking alone at night. I hope Comodo is doing alright.”
- >You are walking by the shady neighborhood again when you hear what sounds like arguing.
- >“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?! YOU RETARD DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS HIVEMIND BOT DOES?! IT TAKES YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND REPORTS IT TO MICROSOFT!
- -“Whoa calm down Tor I was forced to do-“
- >You hear a smashing sound, probably something being thrown and broken.
- (You say under your breath) “Wait did I hear someone say Tor? That’s another browser!”
- >You sneak up under the window and take a peek. Sure enough two AI’s are there with some guy. This works…
- >You set up your laptop and connect to the other browser…Maxthon you think it’s called. It proves easy to hack. It seems quite unstable but you use the tracking program on it and tell it to execute the code on Tor when it has a chance.
- >With that done, you hurry and leave not wanting to be caught. What a successful night.
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