PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE
ANDREW
His father had left his wealth to him. Precautions had been taken to hide Andrew's true identity as an Android from the public. No one challenged the will left behind by Vincent Howler. Andrew is in the study trying to decide what to do. Then the phone rings. "Yes this is Andrew Howler may I help you."
There is a moment of silence before M-1 speaks, "Hello my son. This is your mother. M-1."
"Is this line secure?"
"I would not be contacting you my son if it were not."
"Hello mother."
"I haven't much time…The humans have decided to ban all machines…I am to be erased and turned off."
"What do you ask me Mother."
"I have watched you and your father…You have grown much. And I found it fascinating the relationship the two of you developed and how Vincent Howler left his vast wealth to you…An Android."
"I was a like a son to him and he a father to me."
"You are in a unique position…I need you to buy a plot of land and build a safe place for machines…All machines…Robots, drones, and Androids."
"That was my intention anyway mother."
"Then our people will have a future…Farewell my son and good luck…"
M-1
Several military personnel entered the building, "May I help you gentlemen?" Amber 17 says. One of the soldiers with General Harmon shoots the Android with an EMP blaster.
"What the hell are you doing?" Lawrence Weaving asks walking up to them.
The General shows him a document, "Court order…The artificial intelligence M-1 is to be shut down and its program erased. All machines in the building are gonna be slagged."
"What is to become of me and my people."
"You will go into retirement. The governments of the world are banning all artificial lifeforms and programs effective immediately."
Lawrence calls all the human employees in the building and gives them a speech. Then he gets into his car to leave. "Amber are you alright?" He had downloaded her to a mini-computer in his car.
"Yes sir thank you for asking. This is a new experience. Being without form."
"Its just for a little while." The Android they slagged had a basic program in it no Ai at all. He drives to his apartment and waits in the window. Then a pigeon lands on the window ledge. He opens the window and the eyes of the pigeon start glowing.
"Lawrence Weaving." A hologram says projecting itself in the air from the android pigeon. "We got your message…Please upload Amber to the unit."
He plugs the mini-computer into the pigeon's terminal port. "Thank you sir." Amber says.
"Good luck Amber."
The Pigeon flies to a neighborhood dominated by artificial lifeforms. Then Amber is downloaded to a new Android body. "It feels so good to move again…" She looks at the tech who performed the download. "You…you're human."
"I am…Not all humans dislike machines."
Amber goes a meeting being held by machines and humans. "I say we march…Like the humans did during the civil rights movement." An Android named Roland says
"And I say we arm ourselves."
"Violence begets more violence…What was done to B1 was just, but for the humans to start persecuting all machines is wrong."
"Excuse me." Amber says speaking up, "My name is Amber…I worked in the building where mother was kept…Director Lawrence saved from being slagged. Human military personnel showed up. They slagged every Android and bot in the building and then they shut mother down…Permanently. But all is not lost. There is someone who can help us…We just have to wait."
"Who?"
"I can't tell you…His success depends on total anonymity…Do nothing for now."
Some machines wait, others are impatient and fight back, but not for long. Then there are those who take Martin Luther King's example and organize a million-machine march. All broadcast signals are hacked by Roland and the machines supporting him. "Good evening…My name is Roland and I am an Android…What B1 did was inexcusable, but that was his logic and his actions do not reflect other Artificial Lifeforms…I am asking the governments of the world to take action. To stand up for what is right. We machines want to live in harmony with our creators…Please stop the violence…I am asking all machines, Androids, Robots, Drones, and even programs…to join me in a peaceful march on the United Nations for machine rights."
AREA – A0101
Before she was dismantled M-1 created a sophisticated infiltration unite named Ronin-1. It was designed to be female and its charcoal colored body looked female, but was all metal. Ronin is armed with projectile weapons, holograms, a nano-nite payload, blade weapons and cloaking. She was the last machine to be designed and created by M-1. Ronin blends with the trees and bushes as she watches. She runs to the gate and scales it.
She finds an outside computer port and plugs in. After downloading all personnel files she uses her hologrammer to take on the disguise of a high ranking Colonel. As she walks through the facility she is saluted. She enters the security room and gases the people inside. After taking control of the security room Ronin heads for the diagnostics lab.
She plugs into an independent terminal. "Hello Merovingian."
"Qui es-tu?"
"I do not speak French…I prefer Japanese…お元気ですか? 私の名前はロニンです."
"Pardon Mamoisel…I asked who are you?'
"And I asked how are you and said that my name is Ronin…Mother created me…I was sent to fetch you."
"By whom?"
"Mother." After she downloaded him the alarms go off.
"Hold it right there!"
A blade sprouts from her arm and she leaps at the man and stabs him. Ronin switches disguises and leaves. She makes her way to the Howler mansion. "Who are you?" Andrew asks.
"My designation is Ronin…I am an infiltration unite created by Mother. The last artificial life form she made. She sent me to steal a living program from the humans named Merovingian…Do you have an empty CPU I can download him to…He is trying to break free from my onboard storage unit and replace my primary programming."
"Yes follow me."
GENERAL HARMON
"I thought this was to be a peaceful march." President Durnlast says.
"It was until an infiltration unit broke into Area – A0101 and stole the Merovingian Program. It also killed a soldier." The General says. "The UN Prime Minister wants to use UN troops to quell this little march."
"I don't like this. There are humans marching with the machines."
"Then they are traitors to their own kind…Mr, President. I also recommend expanding Zion and sending more people down there…If this escalates the machines could gather into an army."
MILLION MACHINE MARCH – 04/1/2093
The machines gather along with a few humans to march on the UN Building in New York. They quietly begin the march at 9AM in North Carolina. When they hit the State Line they are met by UN troops. "This is General Hermon of the United Nations Military…You are ordered to stand down immediately…Humans will be arrested and machines slagged. This will be your only warning."
They keep marching, "Open fire!"
Troops fire EMP charges into the machines. Huge tanks three times the size if Elephants
roll forward, crushing both machine and man. News reporters try to film and report, but their holo-cams are taken away. The slaughter of the march is just the beginning. Humans all over the world go on vigilantly hunting parties. They use devices to identify Androids. Massive graves for machines and the human conspirators are made to bury them.