Alien: Covenant 2: Part 7

************** Answers *************

David 8 was completely taken aback by his new situation. He was so stunned that he didn't know how to react. These two individuals should be dead, diseased, what had happened?

Weyland spoke.

"Yes David it's me. I suppose that you're searching for answers? Well, I guess I'll start with Walter here. You see, Walter is not just Walter, he's Walter 6. When I produce a droid model there isn't only one, there are several. You should know that being David 8, being the 8th son in that series.

(David just stood there, a blank expression on his face. However, on the inside his circuits were fusing. Weyland knew this)

"Calm yourself. No reason to get rattled. Anyway, sending you out on Prometheus, and having that mission become a failure," Weyland paused here, "Yes, putting one, or two, droids on a ship was a mistake on my part. However, it is something that I am happy to say has been rectified. See, I sent you out with something new within your circuits, an EC, Emotion-Chip. I wanted to test the function of an android under stress. Sending humankind out into the void is one thing. However, sending out a machine, no matter how human-like, would be able to make logical choices. Still, I knew that there would come a time whenever a logical decision would not suffice. Sometime the heart does rule over the brain. In such a case I wanted to test how you would react."

Weyland stopped here a moment and looked down.

"To my incredulity I did not know that Holloway would be able to taunt you into murder. Even at my age I am still learning. Anyway, your link-up with the Covenant data-banks has given me plenty of feedback. I was getting feedback from you too on Prometheus, before it suddenly stopped. It's what caused me to make changes on Walter here. He is more controllable and the EC is gone. Still, what's done is done. I hated to lose the crew on that vessel, just as I have most of them on this one," he paused.

"Yes, I was the one who released Daniels from her chamber. I wanted to gather a little more Intel before I encountered you face to face. As the story goes I've become quite the success on our home world. Treatments and cures for earth-bound illnesses, new construction break-thoughts, FTL travel, and yes, cloning."

"Cloning isn't something new, it's been experimented with for decades, and I've had some rather good successes with it. Still, it isn't where I want it to be. You think of yourself as a god? Well, that's not how I think. I don't consider myself a Divinity, but I would like to meet the Creator, if so exist. And, the only way to do that is to expand lifetime. I would like to meet God, however, not in an afterlife, but in this one. Shake hands if you will. We can exchange ideas."

Suddenly Weyland was cut short.

"Are you going to kill me?"

David had become bored with his father's constant grinding.

"Kill you? No my son, but you will be reprogrammed. Your emotional chip removed."

"So I will become a robot-zombie," David voiced sarcastically?

Wayland chuckled.

"Well, not the way I would have put it, but yes, I guess so."

"Well, pardon me father and forgive my human desire, but I choose to remain the same."

David then made a lunge towards his creator.

END PART 7