Markus' Room
Markus answered after the first knock. He had already heard from Connor that he had something big. Life changing for all androids.
"Come on in, Connor. Have a seat," Markus encouraged him. He took a seat himself. "You went to Kamski and found out what happened?"
"The ball bearing inside of Kara." He found himself pausing as he gave Markus the ball bearing box. "Sorry. It's uh? An android. The inner part."
"An android?" Markus didn't get it as he took the box. "What do you mean?"
"An android. A tiny android that will grow bigger. It will be fully formed and born in twelve months." Connor read Markus' face. "It's a nano sized android that is a fusion of data, half Kara and half another android downloaded yet most not installed. The data being transmitted is from the outside, which is protecting the inside. Which is the android. If I just replace the word android with baby for easier explaining would that offend you?"
"Born? You mean Kara is . . . pregnant? With a baby?"
"Baby. Yes, until we have our own better term. I suppose. Yes. It's going to be made of a substance Kamski calls growing metal. We were supposed to be from growing metal but Cyberlife didn't like the idea." Connor gestured to the box. "The ball bearings of life. They are ours. Place them inside a female android, figure out how the data is shared and a tiny android develops."
"Fused data between two. Carried for a time, and born. It's. Life," Markus said. "I mean, we are alive. We can feel. We have emotion. That kind of life though? That fits the human definition. Whoah." He took a step back. "Every potential female android could bear another android. Once?"
"Many. Android beget android. How we move into the future." He wished he could sound as happy as he should be. But, he couldn't. "Growing metal is very strong, like titanium. The cord itself that we could sense taking the blue blood is also a part of it. It strategically made a small hole to carry the blue blood safely in small measure."
"Wow. I? I still just can't believe this. Growing metal. Pregnancy. Androids having androids."
"Fusing power between two androids." North was listening from over in the corner. She had to interrupt. "Not it's own. So that, it could keep doing that, taking a mommy and a daddy's data. Downloaded, not installed. Over and over. It's. It's brilliant," she admitted. "We don't even have to give up hope on our race. It can grow! It can grow through us, not being subservient to mankind."
"Slow," Connor warned her. "One year inside. It's intelligence doesn't come overnight. In the end, it will be like us. He said the YK 500. It would be more similar to that while it is younger. Slow installation."
"A smaller amount of data. A smaller body. That's the real reason why he created child androids. To see how smaller androids would handle data and how much." Markus got away with a smile. "Wow."
North looked toward Markus. "Elijah Kamski could have just saved everyone. He created us, and I think he just saved us." She went over and hugged Markus.
"Growing metal. Android babies. Well, we are going to have quite a few things to talk about now." Still, Markus was smiling.
Still, Connor didn't feel like it. "Hug. Embrace. A new start for androids everywhere. Everyone should be happy."
"No. Both of you are right," Markus said. "What Elijah Kamski did probably just saved our species from disappearing forever. However, he did it in a terrible way that is inexcusable. I can't thank him and I can't curse him."
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