by Lee Sonogan
“What..., I thought you said it was safe here Eric,” said Brock. He looks around feeling not as safe as he thought he was. “Your safe here Brock. Everyone in this bar is a badass. That guy over there fought with some sort of intelligent lion monster, the owner of this bar is a wizard that conjures magic powers and yours truly lead a group of men into the battle at the 'Forsaken desert',” said Bob. Brock breaths heavily, examines everybody in the room and then starts to calm down. “So, gems are currency around here?” Asked Brock. Learning made him feel more comfortable. “Magic users can use them for their magic power, from the power inside them. So naturally there a good system for money here. Makes the people in this place a lot stronger too,” said the waitress in a caring tone. “That reassuring, thank you,” said Brock Awkwardly. Brock watches the waitress as she leaves.
“Getting back to what I was saying. Can I trust you to look after Brock for a while? Maybe teach him a few things?” Asked Eric. “Yeah if he helps me build my house he can stay with me. You ok with this Brock?” asked Bob. “Yes sir,” said Brock and nods. “It's Bob, so relax and we will be quite drunk soon,” said Bob. A guy in colourful robes walks over carrying their ciders. “Here are your ciders gentlemen,” said the man in the robe. Bob takes the drinks off him and says, “thank you,” and gives him extra gems. “Where do you get these gems?” Asked Brock. “If you are living with me I’ll take you with me to some gems in a cave near my house,” answered Bob. After a few pints of cider at the stall, they start playing some pool. Very loud sounds come from outside. The waitress looks worried. “What now … come on this is my first drink for the night”, “get ready people,” said people in the bar. “What the hell is that,” yelled a woman at the window. The sounds get closer. “It's coming to the door!” yelled a guy at the bar. A humanoid appearing robot comes crashing in through the door with a lot of the damage to its body, sparking everywhere. Tripping onto the pool table, breaking it in the process. Everybody in the pub surrounds it.
“This thing seems dead or dying,” said a guy amongst the crowd. Bob pokes the robot with his beverage. The robot sits up giving the people around it a fright making them move backwards. “I mean you no harm, I was fleeing from my own kind,” said the mechanical being. “I’ve heard your kinds are mechanical monsters,” yelled a guy at the pub. The crowd agrees with this guy. “Please believe me, they have tortured me for talking with you humans. You can trust me,” said the robot. As half the pub starts to believe it a bottle is thrown at its face. “I own this bar and I say he’s coming to talk to me and Eric in the other room,” said the man in the colourful robe while getting in-between the crowd and the robot. Eric looks surprised. The man in the robe drags the robot into a different room while hinting to Eric to follow him. “I'll be back in a bit, look after Brock for me Bob,” said Eric as he walks toward the other room. The people crowd around the entrance to the other room to try to overhear something. Sound returns back to normal in the pub. Time passes, and Eric and the robot leave the room and walks towards Bob and Brock. “Could you take the robot out of town with you Bob?” Asked Eric. “Hi, my name is Shane,” said the robot. “Hi Shane, if you and Brock help me, you can stay with me,” said Bob. Eric walks back to the other room. “Yes, I will help you, if you can hide me. I promise not to bother you or cause you any issues,” said Shane. Bob finishes his drink and stands up. People are staring at the robot from across the room. “Let's go, most of these people will not accept you more, if we stay,” said Bob. Shane and Brock followed Bob out of the bar as people looked and stared in judgement and curiosity.
Chapter 9: Vigilantism
A women news reporter at Current world news sits behind a desk and reads the news. She was completely serious in her body language.
“… Nicknamed after his disappearing 'Golden breeze', the vigilantly has given footage to us and many other news outlets around the world, of acts of torture, corruption, violence and more. Leaving humanity with many questions on who is doing these acts and how did 'Golden breeze' obtain all the footage. The data was sent to the authorities to be examined as evidence against 'Golden breeze', but the data was uncrackable,” said the news reporter. “This vigilantly is seeming to be a very intelligent hacker that no one yet can match,” said the head of the 'Golden breeze' case. “'Golden breeze' has for the last six months been saving people all around the world from every kind of acts of evil, according to hundreds of witnesses. Some witnesses say that the 'Golden breeze' has superhuman abilities. This has created a popular conspiracy theory on the internet and in the public. But since 'Golden breeze' has risen into popular culture, it is believed that it is copycat vigilantes who are trying to be superheros,” said the news reporter. Someone whispers into the news reporter’s ear beside her. Text on the screen changes. “Breaking news, an anti-vigilante group is holding 15 people ransom at the Strongcrest museum of history and demand to talk to the vigilante,” said the reporter. A live feed of the Strongcrest museum of history is shown on the screen. Shot of the live feed with cops outside the building. “Bring us 'Golden breeze' or we the 'No powers' will kill a hostage every hour,” said one of the captors through a loud speaker inside the museum. Then, a gunshot goes off, making the hostages scream in a panic.
“You better get going,” said Bailey. Bailey and Joven are both in bed watching the news. A pet cat sits on the edge of the bed. “I could do it as a clone,” said Joven as a clone rips off Joven's body. “They would not take hostages just to talk to you Joven, they might have a plan to hurt you. You and your clone should go,” said Bailey. “I'll be fine babe,” said Joven as he floats with his clone towards the window. The cat jumps off the bed. “Go be a hero,” said Bailey. Joven instantly teleports to the Strongcrest, museum of history and sees a crowd outside of it with police and swat. Joven examines the area and looks within the Strongcrest museum of history. He sees eight-armed people surrounding some sort of cage with the hostages within it. The cage is connected to each of the hostages with wires and the armed people wore a kind of headset. Joven goes transparent and invisible and flies into the area of the building, without being seen. He sees all the armed people and the cage full of hostages. In the middle, he sees a desk with papers on it. An armed man wearing body armour is sitting on a side of it. Also, there are video cameras set up facing the other empty chair. Joven lands on the ground and walks towards the other chair and pulls it back. This alerts the armed people, aiming their weapons towards the back of the chair. “I know your there, you self-righteous prick,” said the man on the other side of the table. The hostages look scared. Joven appears sitting on the chair.
“I'm here. It looks like you put yourself in a lot of trouble to do so. What do you want from me,” said Joven. “As you most likely know, my name is Blake O’Leary and I’m a member of the 'No powers'. We have collaborated in sharing information on you since you started your little silent superhero facade. The information on the witnesses from all the secure government systems has been hacked. We know what you have done. We demand you to justify what you have done. We demand that you reveal your real identity. And teleport us to freedom after we have footage of your confessing,” said Blake. Blake turns on the cameras. “We have 15 hostages connected to a titanium cage that will electrify them, if we focus enough on one word in our mind. Disconnection of these wires will also cause the death of our hostages. They're not even good hostages, we took them from a prisoner transfer that was heading to a high security prison. No one will miss these criminals. But I know you always save the victims,” said Blake. “I do have trouble with manipulating titanium, but that titanium cage does not have it in the floor,” replied Joven. Joven prepared for situations like this, to see through his own weaknesses.
As fast as he could Joven uses his powers to rip the cage out of the ground, including removing the roof and hostages. He then switches the hostages with the armed men, except Blake. Hostages appear out the front of the building near the cops still bind. The cops are shocked when
they appear in front of them while discussing a plan of entry. The armed men are now connected to the wires in the cage. “Do not think of the word,” yelled the armed people while rising into the sky. Joven then materialises the building as it was, making it repair itself. Distracted, no one sees the armed man strapped to the structure flying across the sky.
“Fine, you out smarted us. I have no chance of escaping what’s outside. Once we are locked up, you can't make us disappear. And we shall continue to spread the truth about you. You stand there with pride, thinking you have saved people today, but deep down you really don’t care about humanity. I am leaving now.” said Blake as he takes out the SD card of the camera and puts it into his pocket. “You shouldn’t exist, no one person can control the power you have,” said Blake with passion. Joven looks at Blake with pity. “Run,” said Joven. He looks like he is thinking of his options. Exiting the building he does not look back. Blake went on the lam. Joven takes a moment to try to understand what he just got told.
On screen footage shows Joven flying away as the 'Golden breeze'. The Current World News does a voiceover on it. And broadcasts it everywhere they can. Joven was caught and recorded. He knew he had to do something about it soon. He wondered where Blake would leak the recording first. The false identity he used could no longer be the way he made a positive change. Plans would need to be pushed forward. One day soon after that night, Joven felt ready to reveal himself to everyone and what he can do to the public and the world.
“Captured live by us, Current World News, we see the vigilante ‘Golden breeze' using superhuman powers to save 15 kidnapped prisoners from a transport to a high security prison. Proving that the conspiracy theories are true. This footage shows the roof of the museum with the 'No powers' members flying to outside the city connected to a structure. With the new information coming in, the 'Golden breeze' and the leader of the armed captors were talking in the wreckage of the building. Then a car was reported being stolen during the same time as the men and women on the scene were helping the bonded hostages as they suddenly appeared from nowhere. Once again 'Golden breeze's powers are shown by him or her materialising and creating the same roof again. It is reported that the armed people connected to the roof structure were arrested outside the city and were stuck beneath the roof structure and titanium cage. Their leader is still on the run and being investigated on. He is considered armed and dangerous. Later on he was seen hi-jacking a car outside the city, at a petrol station. More about the story, as the breaking news continues to happen with more evidence. In...,” said the news reporter.
Chapter 10: Test for power
Video: Top 5 request ideas for powers, given to people who are deemed worthy of Joven's gifts
A man speaks in the video with an image of him. Then his voice is used on the transitions after his speech. He is a supporter of Joven that makes list videos on a video sharing website. His channel has been popular recently. His channel was not the only one talking about Joven.
“Our super powered leader has changed the world in the last six months. Eliminated poverty, Housed the homeless, Saved the doomed from sickness, and much more. He empowers the human race for more. He is impressed with us enough to test the deemed worthy, to become a god like him. Joven has put a messaging system on his website www.Jovenftw.com for letters of why they should be considered. “I will also have a top 100 people that I will be choosing from, 24/7,” said Joven in his initial press release on giving people powers,” narrated a man. The video played the countdown of request ideas for powers. With the top request being the ability to fly. The video has nearly reached one million views.
Beep! Beep! Beep! A woman with red hair with dreadlocks gets a message on her phone. She picks ups the phone that was beside her and clicks on the phone to read it. It says “I respect you, Anna. Your work with Doctors without borders, charities you have organised and much more has got my attention. Your commitment to helping people is regarded by my judgement as rare. Your choice of wanting healing powers proves that. If you are willing, I am more than happy to give you a shot to see if you are capable of using such power. Learning how to wield this power will be difficult to master physically and mentally. My tests will show if you can handle it. If you pass, a small percent of my energy will become one with you. Once it has merged with you, I cannot reverse the process. Please text back yes or no as soon as possible. Once you have said yes, I’ll create a portal where you are, and we shall begin in an undisclosed area of my creation. If your choice is no, you will not offend me.”
This excites and interests her. “I can handle anything that he throws at me, how hard can these tests be,” thought Anna as she texted back the answer yes. A portal opens up in her apartment, making everything in the room move from where it was. Anna grabs those things and puts them in a place where they won't break and walks back to the front of the portal. She looks within the portal and sees an open field. “You only live once,” thought Anna as she takes a few steps back. She closes her eyes and runs straight into the portal. She falls to the ground hard. “Howdy Anna, nice to meet you in person,” said Joven. The portal disappears behind the two. “Likewise. What is this place?” Asked Anna. “It's a dimension I have created, where I test people. Are you ready?” Asked Joven. She looks around the open field. “Sure am,” replied Anna. “First test is a shortcut, where other tests are not required,” said Joven. “Ok, what is it?” Asked Anna. “Let me read your mind and see your thoughts from your whole existence. This shows that you are willing to go up and beyond to show me trust. And I can judge you to see if you are a worthy person with ease. Not everybody is comfortable in showing that much of them self to me, but it's an honour if they do share that,” said Joven. “I have nothing to hide. I have done some weird shit in my life, but your open-minded compared to an average person, right?” asked Anna. “Of course. I do weird stuff all the time now and before I got my powers. I judge people very lightly because the weird stuff makes us human,” said Joven. Anna pauses to think about her choice.
“Ok do it,” said Anna. “Are you sure?” Asked Joven. “Go on and do it,” said Anna. Joven focuses and looks within Anna's mind, learning everything she has ever experienced and thought. Her mind goes numb while Joven does this. Joven finishes. “Beautiful and fearless,” said Joven. “So, am I normal?” Asked Anna. “Yeah normal enough,” said Joven. Joven teleports them to his hideout that’s overlooking a cliff, above the ocean. “Nice place,” said Anna. “Thank you, please sit on the chair over there?” Asked Joven as he points to a chair, unlike the others. Anna walks over there and sits down. “This process will change your body and mind as well. You will also gain abilities such as faster self-healing, increased memory, cognitive skills and be immune to illnesses and sickness. This will help you in healing people around the world. Some of my infinitive energy will become one with you. Becoming your power, with me losing all control of it. And you will have the ability to heal others as well,” said Joven. “Thank you so much,” said Anna. “Much like reading your mind, this will happen in an instant,” said Joven. “Ok, I’m ready,” answered Anna. Joven stands closer to her. Joven added his energy into Anna perfectly. Anna sits there with her eyes closed. “How do you feel?” Asked Joven. “I feel amazing,” yelled Anna as she opened her eyes and stood up.
Joven lets the energy settle within Anna’s mind and body. “Let's test your powers,” said Joven. He teleports a man with a leg all bandaged up in front of them. He looks scared at first and then he sees Joven and calms down. “Sorry to scare you like this, but do you want your broken leg completely healed now?” asked Joven. The man seems hesitant, but nods in agreement. “Just focus on the bones and how they grow back naturally. That should increase the healing process of the broken bones,” said Joven. Anna gets on her knees and puts her hands above the leg. A glowing comes from her hands. Within ten seconds, she stops. The man laying on the ground cannot believe it. “Thank you so much for this,” said the man as he stands up. “You'
re welcome,” said Anna. “I am going to send you back now ok?” said Joven. Joven teleports him away. “While we are here, wanna hang out? Time flows a lot slower in this dimension,” asked Joven. “For sure,” said Anna. Joven guides Anna to the edge of the cliff. Calmly Anna walks over to the edge and sees the ocean roaring below. “This place is insane. What can we do first?” Asked Anna, looking happy and eager to experience something new. Joven sees within her happiness like she has never felt before. He feels good knowing that deep down, people at their core can always change for the better.
Chapter A: Article: Gerald and the rise of robots
currentworld-news.com
Current World News Online
Gerald and the rise of robots
Written by Joey Turner - Thursday, October
With the birth of the age of the utopia, two years ago, Artificial intelligence has become the norm in our societies. Overcoming the fear and anxiety of what robots could have been, such as in the movies. Joven's 'AI' robots lead the way for many other interesting creations. These new creations have helped the world through automation, and companionship. But the 'AI' robots are now treated as living and breathing beings. Proving without a shadow of a doubt that all they want is to exist and live with us humans.
During the first days that Joven claimed control of the planet. Through the ironically named video called ' I am a god. Prepare for change '. Soon after there was a lot of debate about the robot life code and the possibilities of Joven’s powers. “We accept that we are responsible for our actions, and the change of the code of life to be treated like a human. It's an honour to be treated as equals. Our kind may be different, but that difference will help us both greatly,” said the first 'AI' robot, Gerald, during one of the final live debates in Washington. President Brock Rollins publicly agreed with Gerald. After the worldwide votes over the internet, we all became one with the intelligent machine. Furthering the bond between humans and other intelligent life. Since then the 'AI' robots have made such a major impact to the world making the changes to the utopia we know today. Many people would agree with that statement.
