"Hey Kev, uhh can you pull up to my place real quick?" I paced back and forth across my small room, "yeah I know you're busy but it's important... mhm, ok-cya," Before I can even bring my phone in front of me, Kev already hung up.
Lily was reading through her completed homework with disbelief. She walked in circles while I worked up the courage to pick up my marker.
"That," she paused, "that didn't happen in class,"
I cautiously placed the marker on my desk next to a pile of wooden boards.
"No it didn't, and to be honest, I have no idea how the marker works" I sat down on my rolling chair. I stared at her face changing from nervousness to amazement.
"That was incredible!" She cheerfully exclaimed, "It completed two pages worth of homework, front and back, in seconds! It even looks like my handwriting," With only a few big steps she stood beside my desk and crouched to look me in the eyes. "Eek, if we can figure out how it works then we'll ace all of our Finals no problem!"
"Yeah you're right!" I reciprocated. "That's why I called Kev,"
"Kev?" She paused for a moment and stood up, "What's he going to do?"
"I figured Kev should know about this, plus he's the smartest guy I know," I kicked against the floor and spun around.
"What's so difficult to understand? You put a question next to it and it answers it." She reasoned.
"Well yeah, but Kev has gotten me out of trouble before," I stopped spinning when I heard quiet frantic steps approaching my door.
It was then when Kev burst through the door proclaiming, "Eek what's wrong?" He turned his head towards Lily and cleared throat as he took a step back, "Oh, hi Lily".
"Eiko, are you sure we should tell him?" Lily whispered.
"Yeah, I trust him more than you to be honest," I answered aloud.
Reluctantly, shh nodded her head and made her way towards the door. "We'll talk more afterschool, cya Eek, cya Kev."
"Alright then" he says while moving out of her way.
The door was swiftly opened and closed. Kev looked at me completely confused before he shook his head and said "Can you just tell me what's going on?"
"Kev, I have a magic marker that can answer any question" I blurted out loud.
"Ok." His monotone response was matched with his now calm demeanor.
"You... want to see it?"
"I'm guessing that was how you completed your homework back during lunch huh" he confidently deducted.
"Yeah I've just been tracing questions all day and they get answered. It even copies my handwriting, it's pretty cool." I scooped up the pen and handed it to him.
He examined the fine point marker with big curious brown eyes. He took every detail into account. The white sleek plastic to the weird little hook thingy that all almost all caps wore. He stared down into the barrel of the pen. The sharp point of the marker was a dark shade of red. Meanwhile, I excitingly continued explaining, "And it can take lecture notes too! It does it automatically- it like listens to the teacher and organizes it's own notes. I don't even have to flip a page."
"It just seems like an ordinary marker to me, but let's test it out". He adjusted his glasses then opened my notebook to an empty piece of paper and begun to jolt down questions with his blue pen that he always carries with him. "Let's see if it can answer some basic questions."
He wrote down some math and history questions that if I had a few minutes I could have easy answer them. He moved the pen above the questions like what I've been doing all day. Except, there wasn't any blue flashes of light or text appearing.
"Hmm," That was all he said.
"Oh that happened to me earlier," Kev returned the pen to me. I raised the pen with the end towards me to brush the two prongs to get the marker to work like last time but all there was was just the smooth white plastic cap surface. "That's weird,"
"What?"
"Umm, let me try to scan the questions again," I was half expecting to get the same results as Kev but my sense of worry quickly ended as a swift flash of light swept across the paper's surface. The questions were met with strings of blue that then dashed towards the right side of the page. Clear answers in my handwriting were bled into the paper.
"Ok, you believe me now right?"
"Well, yeah it's kinda hard not to anymore," he said with eyes that stared down the paper. He blinked a few times and continued, "alright but those were easy questions." He picked up the notebook read through the answers and nodded, "how about something a little more abstract." With a swift scribble he wrote, in perfect cursive, a simple word.
Who
"I think the pen only works for you Eek," He placed the notebook on flat the desk. I hovered the pen over the question and all at once, a cyan blue ink began to flow across the paper. It covered the notebook and swayed peacefully like ocean waves until they rushed rowards the center of the page and all the blue water evaporated leaving only 4 small letters behind.
[Teon]
"I guess it's called Teon."
"Eek, you seriously don't find any of this creepy?"
"I mean, not really, it's just a magic pen."
"What the- No, what-" Kev frustratingly wrote a few more questions.
Who are you, What are you, Where did you come from, How do you work. They were more commands than questions I thought.
Once again the blue ink danced across the paper until settling into three evenly spaced rows of sentences.
[You may refer to me as Teon], [I am what my creator desires], [I come from a classroom]
the last response was written on the back of the page,
[To simplify, I absorb from my surroundings and use my AI to process that knowledge. However I am currently limited.]
Kev stood motionless, but while he was busy trying to think of what to do next I had already grabbed his pen and wrote down my own question.
Tell me a fun fact about yourself Teon.
[Red is my favorite color :D]
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Can't Create - AI Generate (pilot thingy)
Science FictionEiko is a lazy highschooler who suddenly found himself a magic marker that can seemingly create anything using it's limited AI. At first he's thrilled about the endless possibilities he holds but his creations begin getting warped and unrecognizable...