I don't own any of the characters (except my own), 20th Century Fox and Isaac Asimove does. And this idea came to me after I was reading 'House of The Scorpian' by Nancy Farmer (it's a good book you should read it if you can) and wondered if they could make a robot with feelings could they make a human clone?
What makes us human?
Is it our ability to feel and create?
Is it how we are born, a sperm cell hitting an egg creating a whole new life?
Or is it some thing diffrent, something we have no name for.....
It had been two years since V.I.K.I. had tried to take over the world through the NS-5 robots, and now not many people trusted robots like they had before. Though there were still robots working for shipping departments that requierd heavy lifting and jobs that would be to dangerous to a human being, but the robots were under constant supervision by armed men. Even Sonny had been followed everywhere he went by a police officer with a gun, until Detective Del Spooner convinced the police department that Sonny wasn't a threat.But even so, whenever Sonny stepped out of Dr. Calvin's home and onto the street he found that he got looks from humans that ranged from threating to frightened.
Right now Sonny was walking down one of Chicago's busy streets, it was snowing and many humans were inside due to the bellow zero temperature. Sonny admired the snowflakes that fluttered around him like feathers. Even though Sonny had seen snow before, he was still fascinated by the flakes falling from the sky. To him it seemed like magic, it could cover a ugly grimy city with a pure white blanket, making everything beautiful.
Sonny crossed the street to the store that had some of the items that was on Dr. Calvin's grocery list. Sonny entered the store, picked up a basket, and picked up several cans of food on the shelves. When he was done choosing the items he brought the basket up to the counter to pay for them. A tall man in his mid-thirties with sandy combed back hair wearing red plaid shirt and jeans sat at the counter and gave a dissapproving look at Sonny. Sonny felt a twing of something in what he refered to as his 'stomach'. That feeling was fear, Sonny sensed that this person was hostile towards him.
"I wish to purchase these items." Sonny said laying the items on the counter and pulling some money out of a change purse.
"I don't do business with robots." The man said glaring icily at Sonny. Sonny felt a mixture of feelings wash through him. Fear. Anger. And injustice. He had to control himself, he wanted to make the man know exactly what he thought. To tell him that he wasn't like the other machines about how he felt and had human emotions. But he didn't. Spooner had told him a while after V.I.K.I had been destroyed that it would be dangerous for him out in the world if humans knew he had human emotions. They wouldn't understand and would think he was dangerous and try to kill him.
Sonny left the store and tried another one, the same thing happened. The store owner turned him away beacuse he was a robot. Sonny finally came back home empty handed. He didn't want to tell Dr. Calvin what happened because he was worried that she would get upset. Sonny walked into the living room of Calvins apartment, Calvin was sitting on the couch watching tv.
She looked up to greet Sonny when she noticed his face.
"Sonny is something bothering you?" She asked. Sonny sat down next to her and thought for a moment about what to tell her.
"Today at the stores I went to I was turned away." Sonny said looking at the television.
"Beacuse you're a robot?"
"Yes." They were both quite for a few moments, then Sonny spoke, "Why do they hate me? I did nothing to them."
"Sonny," Calvin said gently,"after V.I.K.I. took control of the other NS-5s, alot of the humans don't trust robots like they used to. And right now they're scared that the robots might attack again."
"But V.I.K.I. was killed, there's no way the robots could attack again."
"Yes,but not many people know that," Dr. Calvin explained to Sonny. Calvins cell phone range she answered it and turned back to Sonny."Sonny, I have to get to work, just think about what I said." Calvin picked up her purse and walked out the door. Sonny sat on the couch with a inquisitive look on his plastic face.
"Spooner!" Lt. Bergin said approaching Spooner's desk "We've found a body in Buckingham Park. DNA identified the body as Ellen Herz a.k.a. Kathrine Heart."
"Kathrine Heart, wasn't she an up and coming actress about twenty years ago?"
"Yeah, made a few major hit movies, then she married some guy in Rino and no one heard of her since. But here's the weird thing." Bergin said,"Her offical record said she died of at age fourty-eight of alcohol poisoning...five years ago."
"Then how can her body just turn up out of thin air?"
"That's for you to find out." Spooner walked out of the building and got into his car. He drove to Buckingham Park when he reached there several police cars were there holding back the crowed that had showed up to see a dead body. Spooner got out of the car and walked over to the body. But much to his suprise the body wasn't that of a fourty-eight year old but of a twenty-five year old.
"You
have got to be kidding me." Spooner muttered to himself.
"Detective Spooner," A man with salt and pepper
colored hair and beard wearing a police badge walked up to
Spooner,"I'm Officer Patrick Schlange, I was one of the first
men called onto the sceen. All the evidence we've found so far are a
two pair of footprints , probally the victim and the killers, and a
bullet that was used to kill the victim."
"What I don't understand," Spooner said looking down at the victims body "is why she has the same DNA as Kathrine Heart?"
"Well..." Schlange said with a sigh, "One of my men have a crazy theory. He thinks that this is a clone of Kathrine Heart."
Spooner
looked again at the girl laying on her stomache in a pool of her own
blood.
"Let's say that's right, where could you get a
clone of yourself?"
"Not in the U.S. and Canada, they outlawed it after the first clone was created in 2015. But in places like Bangkok and Singapore you could make a clone of yourslef for the right price."
"What are the chances of more clones of Kathrine Heart out there?" Spooner asked. Schlange sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"That's hard to say, sometimes people have as many as fifty made of themselves. Especially with that cult, what are they called? The Kleptians, they belive that the gentetic fountain of youth is found in cloning."
"Does anyone know if they created a clone?"
"They said they did, but I wouldn't trust their word. No records, no DNA samples, nothing. So my guess is as good as yours."
Spooner looked at the girl again. Wondering if she was really a clone of Kathrine Heart, and if so, why would anyone want to murder her.
