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Canberra, Australia
Theodore Kamski relaxed by his computers. He gently touched his ear, listening to the classical music of humans. He felt a gentle pull on the back of his seat. What was pulling at the back of his seat? He looked up and saw a gun.
Theodore Kamski opened his eyes. Not again. Another one of them died somewhere. The feeling. The loss. It was so hard to deal with it. It was like being killed himself. A feeling of the inevitable end of everything. A fright, a dread so unexplainable. However, his fears weren't completely quelled. He couldn't see. His eyes were open but he couldn't see. He also couldn't move. He heard sounds, light sounds, over by his computer.
"Don't mind me. I'm just here to kill you, over and over again, until you release her."
Hm? "That's impossible." It was impossible! That was the voice of. It couldn't be. "RK 900."
Connor stared at him. He had no idea what was going on yet. "I prefer Connor." Yes, he was starting to get the hint now. "You're almost blind because I already killed you once. I will be doing that again soon. And again. And again."
"What? I? I?"
"You are living on borrowed time." Connor tossed something in his hand. "A simple battery of a few minutes. I need to replace it with an autonomous one, in order to save you again. That's what I'm holding, right now." He placed it square by the eyes. He would only get a bleary look at it, but good enough to see he was holding something precious. "You've got two options. You and the rest of your little Kamski squad can unhook Kara from being connected and I can give you this. Let you live again? Or?" He pulled out the battery, gave it a few seconds, and pressed it back again. "I can make the end of your existence last for a long time."
"I don't understand!" He yelled. "How did you even find me?"
"Alice once said Kara had a bad home before home," Connor said. "It made sense that you Kamski's would be using it as the one that's really controlling everything. When it came down to the last house, everyone could check every extension to make sure she disconnected okay, and it wouldn't matter. You'd be right here, hiding away to upload a virus into her."
"But how did you find out where I was?!"
"I probed her for the answer." Connor took out the battery again, effectively killing him for a time, before putting it back in. "I've been quite nice since I've joined Jericho. But seeing what you actually did to her-"
"We aren't the human, he did it!"
"You erased her memory of it!" Connor yelled at him, pulling out the battery again, popping it back in, pulling it out again, and then popping it back in. "You created a second child before fully understanding how to save the first! Then you made her choose to kill one or the other!"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Kamski pleaded. "I-I-I. It hurts."
"Androids don't hurt," Connor reminded him. "We are just nothing but memory. Something you can play with. Duplicate. Create. If I just create another one of you, then you don't matter at all."
"No, please!"
"That's what you did to Kara when you transferred her into two! That's what you did to me, and Alice? She didn't even matter. Your own creation, but she didn't matter because you were only programmed to protect Kara and Elise. Give Kara Alice's body and call it good! Besides, Alice wasn't Elise. What did she matter? She was only your own creation, you had every right to do what you wanted with her. After all, she was only supposed to be temporary!" Connor pulled out the battery again. He waited ten seconds.
"Stoop! Stop, stop! You're hurting us!" He pleaded. "Alright, okay! You'll never destroy Cyberlife if you do this."
"The end of Cyberlife is not my mission. It's a frail, weak company that can trudge on for all I care anymore," Connor said. "Anything it dishes out, androids will survive. The half deviant virus, it's nothing a simple hand touch from Kara can't get rid of. Now. How do I break Kara's connection?"
Connor went over to the computer and followed his instructions. Kamski wasn't going to play around. He was a connected android, so it wasn't just him that was feeling death over and over again. The other three were too, and if there were more, they were as well. Over and over. While androids couldn't feel pain, death was a foggy shroud of unknowing what came next. And he had enough backup batteries to make it last hours if necessary.
Following Kamski's instructions, he found the other three houses. After the horrid interface, the bad home was the one Kara had on her mind. Probing her for the location brought more pain back, but it was necessary. All of it would be over after this. He could see how each house was connected now.
He went back over toward him. "Disconnect her now."
"She'll be of no more use," he warned Connor. "No mastery skills. No heavy programming. She might not even keep her general housecleaning skills. She'll be nothing."
"She'll still be everything." Connor answered. "Disconnect her or you'll never get your new battery. I'll just continue to kill you."
"Okay, okay!"
Connor watched the computer. "Confirmed, disconnected in France." Germany, where they were supposed to go next. Stopped. Disconnected in the Carribean. "Done." All that was left was that computer. He watched the main access button flash a couple of times before it was gone.
"There, there!" Kamski yelled. "It's done, she's safe! We can't mess with her anymore. She's nothing but a regular AX 400 or less. Now, the battery! Please!"
Connor moved Kamski on top of the computer and shoved in the new battery. "There you go. 170 years or so of life. Avoiding the dreaded darkness of stopping. Which is a good thing," Connor said. "I'm pretty sure all the decent Kamski's are already dead, but just in case, at least no one else will suffer who shouldn't." Connor pulled something out of his pocket. "Your body will start to move in a little while again better. Just clasp your fingers on that."
"Why?" Kamski was starting to be able to see. "What am I holding?"
"A detonator," Connor said casually. "Upside down, so if the red button falls, you'll blow up." He started to walk away.
"Wait, wait!" Kamski was trying to move his hand.
"I forgot to tell you," Connor said looking back. "I like to play doctor too. Between your times of being dead, I messed with some different things. If you try to lift your right hand, your left leg twitches. That's just a little example. I'm sure you'll figure out the rest."
"Wait! Wait!" Kamski yelled. He tried to move his right hand, and his left leg twitched. He tried to move his left leg, and his right arm slammed down. He tried to move his right arm . . .
Connor moved back to the jet. He looked back to the real last home as it bursted into nothing but fire. He got back in the jet.
Mission Successful.
Summary Notes:
With Kara finally remembering, Connor had probed Kara before he left in the other chapter. Getting the address from her subconscious, he went straight to the source.
Connor has mostly drained batteries except one that is fully charged. He is causing the most amount of 'pain' he can to Kamski by switching them in and out, effectively killing him on and off.
