Angels of death

Chapter 19: Loose end- Part 2

Time: 9:50 pm
Location: Winston's class

"- and that's everything I wanted to talk to you about", Winston dismissed the parent. If you don't remember, Winston is at a parents evening. 'Hmm, where's Thad? He should be back by now', Winston had sent Thad off to do a simple task and was now concerned with how long it was taking him, he is unaware of what has happened in the evacuation spot he sent Thad to.

But, the show must go on as they say, Winston still has a job to do and had faith that Thad was alright. "Next", Winston called for the next parent. And he was pleasantly surprised when Khan sat down infront of him, "ah, Khan. I was worried you'd be to busy working on your doors to visit your daughters parents evening", said Winston in a sarcastic tone.

Khan didn't appear to like that, "what's with the sas Winston?", Khan asked, genuinely confused as to what Winston was mad about. Winston put his hand to his head and let out a deep sigh, "Khan. I am very concerned about your daughter. She's demonstrated antisocial behaviour and doesn't get along well with anyone. It's clear that there's something wrong with her. I don't know if she was born like this or if its due to her lacking a mother in her life but it appears that, well... there's a high chance her A.I is... damaged", said Winston.

Khan's eyes hollowed, "e-excuse me?", he stuttered in shock. Winston continued, more strain in his voice, "I've noticed that she behaves... unusually. She often prefers to sit on her desk and whenever we put her in a chair she's never comfortable. She doesn't want to interact with other students and when she has to she always lashes out at them, which then freaks them out, so they tease her, which causes her to lash out. She's hands down the smartest kid in this room when it comes to maths and technology, but she often doodles on her work and doesn't pay attention. This is clearly a combination of some psychological issues and bug's in her A.I", explained Winston.

Khan looked at Winston baffled, "Winston... why didn't you tell me this sooner? You said you'd tell me if something was wrong!". Winston gritted his teeth, "Khan I tried to tell you, but you were always busy distracting yourself with those damn doors!", snapped Winston.

Khan just stayed quiet, "... my daughter... is damaged?". Winston softened after seeing Khan show some form of concern for his daughter, "Khan, it's not the end of the world if Uzi's A.I is damaged. I shouldn't tell you this but if it makes you feel any better Thad also may have a damaged A.I", this caught Khan's interest.

"Thad often gets things like squares and triangles mixed up, he day dreams and I often see his fiddling with his cap. And Thad's doing fine. Same with Doll", 'uh oh', thought Khan as he noticed a pattern.

"Doll's default language is automatically set as Russian. Something she must of inherited from her parents. She often miss uses English words, forgetting what they actually mean, and she has a strange obsession with knifes. And they are both, for the most part doing fine! So Uzi being damaged doesn't mean she's broken, it just means she's different", Winston explained, trying to ease Khan.

But Khan wasn't worried about Uzi being defective. What worried him was that every child of the demon drones have damaged A.I's. 'This isn't good! Oh god, could it be possible that their damaged A.I's are a result of they themselves having absolute solver!? I mean, of course! Why wouldn't we just assume that combining our codes to make an A.I would also give them absolute solver!? Although, me, Nori, Steve and Alex don't have damaged A.I's. But perhaps being the child of two hosts of absolute solver may increase it's power or-'

Khan's theorising was cut off when Winston spoke up, "uhm Khan?", Winston was concerned as Khan muttered to himself.

Khan snapped out of his daydream, "oh! Right yeah! So uhm..."



Meanwhile somewhere in the colony...

Uzi, Thad and N were making their way to the evacuation spot where Thad claimed to have seen a murder.

An silence had fallen over the group. But Thad wasn't one for silence and he wanted to catch up with his friend, "so, Uzi", said Thad catching Uzi's attention, "how's the 'living in the wild' life style been treating you?", asked Thad, a sweet sincerity in his voice.

Uzi just blinked at him, "o-oh, uhm, fine, I guess... It's better than living here in my opinion cause I just get to spend time repairing N's pod so I can fly to earth and kill all humans!", said Uzi, she gained a joyful attitude as she stated her malicious intent but then quickly dropped when she realised she what she'd just said, 'OH MY GOD I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THAT!! NOW HE THINK'S I'M WEIRD!!' Thought Uzi, panicked.

But instead of thinking of Uzi as weird, Thad just chuckled, like Uzi's over the top attitude that most found weird gave Thad amusement, "hehe, you do you Zi!", chuckled Thad happily.

Uzi blushed after hearing Thad call her 'Zi', "Z-Zi?". Thad adjusted his cap, "hehe, well, I like to give my friends nicknames", he said joyfully.

Uzi looked at Thad intensely, "y-yeah... we are friends... huh... never thought I'd hear anyone, let alone someone as popular as you, call me their friend", Uzi said distantly.