System Start-Up initiated
(Central processor online)
Designation: Phantom
Mission:
(Human disguise protocols initiated)
Gather information
(Visual alterations in effect: Appearance: Human Male)
Report wirelessly to Origin Planet: Designation: Phantasma Alpha
(artificial lung functions online)
Prepare Designated Planet for invasion
(Auditory systems online)
"-shit Tucker get over here!"
Target: Sole Inhabited Planet of Section 238: Locally known as Earth
"Oh my god, is that-"
"He can't be any older than us..."
Earth inhabitants detected. Designation: Humans
Objective: Mimic
"Is he alive?"
"Oh god he's like ice...
Activating Heaters: Objective: Average Human Body Temperature
Scanning...
Calculating Average...
"I can't find a pulse..."
"Fuck, you mean he's...?"
Query: Pulse
Scanning...
Human Subjects Possess a Vascular Muscle that pumps liquid through their system. Appears Necessary for survival.
Conclusion: Heart supplies pulse
Query: Heart
Designation: Phantom possesses a similar artificial vascular muscle
Solution: Activate Heart
"No... Wait! There it is! He has a pulse! He's warming up too, I think he's going to be okay!"
Conclusion Accurate Solution Successful
(Visual sensors online)
Visual Observation: Designation: Phantom within metal containment unit
Human: Designation: Male
Observation: Skin:Brown/Eyes:Green/Hair:Brown/PhysicalThreat:Minimal/MentalThreat:Unknown
Human: Designation: Female
Observation: Skin:Beige/Eyes:Violet/Hair:Black/PysicalThreat:Minimal/MentalThreat:Unknown
"Tucker, he's waking up!"
"Hey, are you okay man?"
Request: System Diagnostic: Confirm?
"Performing system diagnostic. Conclusion: All systems performing optimally. Query Redundant."
"What?"
Request: Repeat
"System diagnostic complete. Conclusion: All systems performing optimally. Query Redundant."
"I think he might have hit his head... How many fingers am I holding up?"
Request: Identify numerical value of human fingers
"Processing request... Conclusion: Three. Query Pointless."
"What's your name? Do you know where you are?"
Query: Designation [Human]: Daniel Fenton
Query: Location: Metal Containment Unit.
"Designation: Daniel Fenton. Location: Metal Containment unit. City Designation: Unknown. Country Designation: Unknown. Planet Designation: Earth."
"Well at least he knows where he is. Roughly."
"Shut it Tucker. Okay, Danny? Can I call you Danny?"
Request: Personal Designation reassignment: Confirm?
"Affirmative. Human Female Authorized to refer to 'me' as Designation: Danny Fenton."
"Why is he talking that way? Why are you talking that way?
"Tucker!"
Request: Information: Speech Patterns
"Processing request... Unclear. Elaboration required; Like what?"
"You're talking like a robot, dude."
Speech Patterns Suspicious
Solution Required
Further assimilation recommended
Modifying speech patterns to fit local patterns...
ERROR: Not enough source material
Processing...
Solution: Continue prompting discussion.
"Negative. I do not speak like a robot."
"Are you even hearing yourself? Yes you do!"
"Tucker, will you stop, he's obviously got some sort of brain injury and you're just aggravating him!"
Assimilation in progress
"Negative. No errors in central processors."
Recommendation: Observe and Copy Human emotional processes: Confirm?
"See? Who the hell says that? Why are you talking like that?"
Verbal Pattern Assimilation: 30%
"Query: like what?"
"Like- Man we've been over this! You're speaking like a robot!"
"Damn it Tucker, yelling is not going to help the situation, we need to get him to a Hospital!"
"Medical Treatment not required. Designation: Danny in perfect health."
"You're speaking like a robot and it's freaking me out."
Verbal Pattern Assimilation: 56%
"He can't help it!"
"False statement: Designation: Danny resolving speech error."
"What?"
"What?"
Request: Repeat
Verbal Pattern Assimilation: 63%
"Designation: Danny resolving speech error."
"Well what does that mean?"
"Tucker, he has a concussion, just stop."
"No! We don't even know that for sure! He could totally be messing with us!"
"Oh my god, seriously? We thought he was dead a second ago, and now he's pranking us?"
Verbal Pattern Assimilation: 79%
"Well-"
"Tucker, you're a complete idiot! He was like ice when we found him! He's obviously been sleeping out her for a long time, do you really thinkhis intention was to fuck with us by talking funny? That's incredibly, stupid! He's sleeping in dumpster for God's sake, Tucker!"
Metal containment unit: Designation: Dumpster
Verbal Pattern Assimilation complete.
Calculating best course of action...
Solution: Mockery
"Stupid, but true."
"What?"
"I knew it!
"What do you mean?"
initiating Emotional Mimicry: Smile
"Designation: Danny was totally fucking with you."
"I told you so."
"Shut up Tucker, that's not important. Why are you out here?"
Query: Current location
Processing...
Query Unclear. Further information required.
"Where else would I be?"
"Inside! I don't know! In your house! Why are you in a dumpster?"
Query: Location: Dumpster
Query Unclear. Further information Required.
"Why shouldn't I be?"
"Because it's a dumpster!"
"Dude, when you're asking yourself why you shouldn't be hanging out in a pile of trash, you know you've reached a new low."
Dumpster: Qualification: Container of human Refuse
"Tucker! Look, Danny, where are your parents?"
Query: Parents
No information found.
"I don't have any."
"Oh... I'm sorry. Do you have a place to stay?"
Query: Place of Residence
Designation: Phantom: Place of Residence: Dumpster
"Here's good."
"Dude, you can't live in a dumpster."
Query: Dumpster: Unfit for residence
Further information required.
"Why not?"
"Because you'll get sick! or worse! You can't stay here! It's filthy!"
Dumpster: Unfit for Residence: Illness due to unhygienic conditions.
"Oh."
"'oh' he says..."
"Tucker, shut it. Do you have anywhere else to stay, Danny?"
Query: Potential residence
Solution: Dumpster
Not Viable: Designation: Dumpster: Houses Human refuse not Designation: Phantom
No further solutions found. insufficient Knowledge of Area.
Query: Collect Information
Solution: Explore
Solution: Scan surroundings
Solution: Query Humans
Solution Viable.
"No... Do you have any suggestions?
"Well..."
"Sam, don't you dare."
"Oh come on, Tucker, he's harmless!"
"You don't know anything about him!
Designation: Phantom
Query: Capable of harm
Resources:
High powered ectoplasmic lasers generate sufficient temperatures to melt through metal and stone structures
Sonic emissions at pitch and volume sufficient to kill humans at close range
physical strength: sufficient to lift up to 4000 tonnes
Capable of complete intangibility
Capable of complete invisibility
Capable of flight at speeds exceeding two hundred miles per hour
Temperature control: Manipulation and generation of ice well exceeding necessary to kill humans
Learning potential: Hyper-accelerated absorption of information through observation
Query: Use of Resources
Unrestricted [Exception: Secrecy]
Query: Killing Humans
Unrestricted [Encouraged: Secrecy]
Designation: Phantom: Capable of extensive Harm
"He's a homeless kid and he needs a place to stay, Tucker."
"Yeah, I get that, but this isn't the solution. You could get hurt."
"He won't hurt me Tucker, I trust him."
"You don't even know him!"
Designation: Harmless...
"He's Harmless, and I've made my decision."
False.
"Fine then, but I'm coming with you to keep an eye on him."
"Danny, how would you like to stay with me? My house is huge so there's plenty of space for you, as long as you don't let my parents catch you."
"Really?"
Designation: Harmless...
"Yeah, come on, I bet it beats a dumpster any day."
"Thank you, thank you so much."
Convenient.
Eh, it was an idea, it's two in the morning, I'm feeling gutsy.
Don't worry, no further chapters will be written this way, this is just a shitty surreal prologue adapted from a run on sentence rough draft I posted on tumblr.