AI Hunter Chronicles: Energized (Season 1)

Episode 41: High Rise, High Expectations

Outside the Samantha Keeling Enterprises Building in Nashville, Tennessee Territory, Lower Canada

We cut to outside the building, where a company hosted innovation competition is being held. This year, the participants had to use scrap metal to create a new product. It was now down to the final five, which included Hyperion, of which is his first time participating.

Hyperion had created a machine that allowed the disabled to walk again. He didn't think much of it, but the jury seemed to be quite interested in his project. The four other competitors had also worked hard on their machines, with one person creating a robot that could perform any task, and another had created a new type of weapon, or more specifically, a plasma rifle. When the judge finally called his name to present his project, he went up to the stage to present his invention.

There was only one judge for this. The boss of the entirety of Samantha Keeling Enterprises himself, Apollo, a robot in similar build as Genesis, only male. He also seemed to be an older make as well. He, alongside his bodyguard, a man of darker tone and white hair, dressed in blue and white, waited for Hyperion to present.

Hyperion, a little nervous, but mostly unbothered, stood on the stage with his machine. He smiled and started the presentation.

Hyperion Olmos: Good evening, my name is Hyperion Olmos, I work with the robotics team here in the Nashville HQ, and today I present to you a machine that allows the physically disabled to walk and move again.

He introduced a person in a wheelchair to the stage and made a little demonstration of his machine and how it worked.

Hyperion Olmos: My machine can connect directly to the nervous system of a person. Once the connection is established, the machine can send small waves to each neuron, transmitting electrical impulses to each muscle fiber.

He explained, showing a diagram of the process on an OLED screen next to him. He then looked at Apollo, awaiting for the robot boss to make some questions or give his opinion in general.

Apollo: It is a very interesting prototype, I must say that. Tell me, Hyperion, would you be working on this with the biological department as a co-op, or would you specifically be working on this in robotics alone?

Hyperion Olmos: I think a co-op between Robotics and the Biology Department would be the smarter choice. We could use the knowledge of the bio team to make some major changes in order to make sure the machine does not malfunction while in use.

Apollo: Interesting...hmmmm...interesting. Back in line, I have made my decision for the final five.

Hyperion went back to standing in line with the other competitors, awaiting the results of the contest. He looked around, feeling a mixture of nervous and excited. He was confident in his invention, but it was impossible not to feel some tension when facing the head of the company himself.

Apollo: I have made my rational decision for the final five. In fourth place, with his contraption to fix the disabled is Hyperion Olmos.
Everyone claps at that.

This caught him by surprise, since he had expected a higher place, but he still smiled and nodded his head when the audience clapped at his results. He was proud to have made it so far, especially since this was his first time joining the competition.

Apollo: In third place, with a machine which can reduce the pain of childbirth down by 85%, Hrodger Hubbard. Everyone claps as well.

He and the other people clapped again. He wasn't expecting someone in the biology department to have made it this far, but then again, it was a good machine. He turned his head around briefly and saw Hrodger walking up to the stage to receive his award.