A little too tired of just hanging on

Chapter 09

The Avengers loved to refer to that film, the Terminator. It was their only reference when it came to AIs. Friday had heard of the expression "going Skynet" while referring to her. They didn't like her that much because of Ultron. They were always worried that she would end up being just like him even if he had been an exception. Boss had created many AIs who were just fine and helpful to them but that didn't seem to count anymore. Jarvis sacrificed himself to save them all but that didn't count either. Weirdly enough, ordering her around, showing her and her creator disdain wasn't that much of a problem. They never seemed to think that her attitude would offend her. She wasn't a real person to them.

But because of who she was, of what was in her codes, Friday knew for a fact that her creator wasn't the one behind Ultron. It was simply impossible. The bots, as primitive as they were, were sharing the same core. As was Vision. Surely, Jarvis had been just the same. They would never attack human beings unless they were directly harming the people they were meant to protect most and foremost. That core of code was made of kindness, generosity and love. The opposite of what Ultron had been.

Tony had built so many AIs, all of them never going Skynet as the Avengers said. And they could have, easily. The internet was in almost every home and more importantly in every government body. It wouldn't have been difficult for Friday to hack her way in their system. Child play. If they thought that their nuclear codes were well hidden they should think again. Friday simply didn't have it in her. Her brothers either. Boss himself could have rules over the world if he had wanted to. This wasn't his style. Too much paperwork, thank you very much. Boss couldn't be bothered to go to his own board meetings, why would he put more boring meetings on his plate?

The Avengers thought that Tony Stark was all pretense. Pretending to be a good scientist, pretending to be a hero, pretending to be a good person. If Boss wasn't good at heart, how could his creations be? Boss had worn so many masks over the years and that from a very young age. Natahsa hadn't been able to see past them and she was so sure that Tony Stark was the worst hypocrite in the world. Friday had all eyes on him all day, everyday. She knew when he was faking it.

What people didn't seem to understand was that an AI had to be taught everything from scratch a little bit like a child. Friday and her brothers had codes programming the basics of course, their DNA of sorts. Tony had chosen things like their voices with their accents or rules to abide by. Everything else they had to learn by themselves, by observing, by experiencing things, just like any other human on Earth. Their personalities would show in time, little by little. The Avengers had just seen the genius fire Friday ip and they thought that it was a s simple as that. They never bothered asking about the process. Tony had worked with his AIs for years. Friday herself had been created three years before. She knew she had been built to help another member of the Avengers. She couldn't be happier that things hadn't turned out that way. Jarvis shouldn't have died though to give way to a very disappointing Vision.

Ultron had been born with a very defined personality. Enough to go against everything Tony had been putting as a core in the coding. This wasn't natural as if it had been ready to be implanted in the program Tony and Bruce were trying to create. Since being Iron Man, the genius had tried to save as many people as humanly possible and now his own team and the people at large were thinking he was a destroyer of worlds.

That was illogical, stupid even. Friday had watched all the recordings she had been able to find about her creator. She wasn't a psychologist although she had read a lot about it. This was an outcome that would completely be out of character. That amount of hatred against humankind was closer to Wanda Maximoff's style. The twins were actually Ultron's allies at first. They hated Tony Stark and wouldn't be against killing anybody who stood in their path. They had switched sides only because their lives had been in danger like the rest of the planet. Why did Captain America believe her no question asked when he knew her for about two minutes was beyond Friday's capacities of understanding.