Disclaimer: I took creative liberties and made a character of my own. He doesn't completely replace the character he's partially based off. So don't go all crazy at me in the reviews. XD

It took me a while to get everything into the cave I had chosen. I began work on my new AI, which I had code named T.

Wait, I forgot to tell you what I look like.

Well, what I looked like.

I'm a skinny boy with a messy head of brown hair like my father. I have bunches of freckles gracing my cheeks, a button nose, and emerald green eyes. I'm usually wearing a green shirt, a brown vest, a belt, dark green pants and a pair of brown boots.

I look nothing like I used to. But more on that later.

Now. I want to tell you about my enemy. My worst enemy, other than the AI. His name is Richard. He's a strong, lean boy with even messier hair than me. He openly mocks me, constantly naming my faults. Great guy. Like I said, he's strong. He could probably hold up the stone ceiling if it collapsed. He's in training with a bunch of the other teens in the underground. Whoever wins gets to join the guard.

The guard. A lot of hardheaded brutes who attack anything that moves. They protect us from the constant threat of AI, so I guess they're worth something.

Oh, and Astrid. She's amazing. She's agile, athletic, and can cut off an AI's head in a single swipe. She's beautiful. Golden hair, blazing blue eyes, and a strong will. Every boy has a crush on her, or has at one point. I'm one of them.

She and Richard are the main contenders for training. None of the others stand a chance. Fish? A short thin boy with a scruffy head of hair. He has no more muscles than me, I don't understand how he's in training and I'm not. Ruff and Tuff? Twins who fight each other more than the AI. None of them stand a chance. Fish is a nerd like me, and knows how to hit a machine where it hurts. But he runs from it the moment it acknowledges his existence.

So now, I'm all but finished T. He's missing something, though.

But what?

Only the very thing that changed this world.

The thing I invented.

A CAE.

Conscience and emotion.

A chip that can help a AI feel.

I stayed up all night designing it the moment I thought of it. When I get back to the cave, I throw off the tarp that covers him. I feel like Frankenstein, looking at his monster for the first time. And we all know how that story ended. The monster went berserk, killing everyone Frankenstein loved. They died together in the arctic, alone. Frankenstein was mad. I'm not mad, but I share something else with him. Creating creatures from the parts of others.

I place the chip in T's head, on his electronic brain, bolting it in place.

He's almost done.

I turn on his motor, giving him electricity.

Nothing. I put a hand on his nose.

"Live. Please. Live."

Not a twitch.

"Live!" I yell, frustrated.

I collapse from exhaustion.

Hours later, I awoke. The cave was still lit from the outside, so the lights must still be on. I look at the worktable T sits on expectantly. He's still there, still as stone. I mutter frustratedly. I had hoped he would at least be moving.

In Frankenstein, the monster had been gone from the chains.

I was frustrated, for sure, but maybe I had missed something. I decided to stay all night and keep working. I moved to turn him off, and my hand rested on his nose.

His eyes shot open.

I yelped in fear, backing up and falling over. He turned to stare at me. He seemed to stare into my soul.

"Uh.. you.. you're alive.."

He blinked but didn't react otherwise.

I stood up slowly and stared back. "I did it. Oh yes, I did it!"

He stood up too, hydraulics whirring as he did. He began to move forward.

I stepped back. "Uh.."

He continued forward, stepping off the worktable and following me. He moved forward, matching every step I took backwards. I was beginning to panic. I fell over again, his eyes inches from my face. I knew he could kill me.

"I created you.. don't hurt me! Don't!"

He stopped, staring.

He made a noise. It sounded like.. 'dkt'.

I had given him a voice chip with prerecorded noises. Growls, grunts, snorts. Bellows, snarls, roars.

Of all the noises he could make, the first one he makes is almost human.

Human.

Human...?

He had used his voice chip to create a simple noise, making it sound different using the shape of his mouth. Like a human did.

He began to repeat the noise over and over, as if it meant something to him.

"Dkt. Dkt! Dokt! Donk! Don't!"

I froze. Don't. He said 'don't'.

He said it again, giving me a pleading look. He wanted my approval.

So I grinned.

And he mimicked me.

I laughed.

And he copied me.

I decided to get him a language chip. One that held programming for the English language. Many Animatronics had them. All I had to do was get one.

So I did. I got one and put it in him.

And he learned to speak almost instantly.

He asked me all sorts of questions.

Who am I?

What am I?

Where am I?

Who are you?

And I answered all of them.

Over the next few weeks, I taught him what it meant to be a friend, what family meant, what killing and sparing meant, why we were so different, why I made him, manners, loyalty.

He was a fast learner.

I named him Toothless.

There are times when I really miss those simple days with him.

He could truly feel. He felt emotions for me. Love. He protected me. And I loved him back, more than anyone I had ever loved before.

Anyone.