In a parallel Earth whose timeline is currently in the 28th century, with a different history. Ever since extradimensional rulers has left the world four hundred years ago, where their reign begun at year 21st century it started to have a shift of perspective and social philosophy, society as a whole became more diluted and more worldly except suppressed due to the hierarchy and plainness of life due to the technological advancement led by the otherworldly rulers that left a few centuries ago.
Celebrities are on the rise, those who use their fame to pursue materialistic goods. In fact, the technology here is so advanced that it's like magic to ancestors. Without the [Redacted] species as its governing rulers, morality and society turned less divine-like and as fame and power go they forgot their original human divine purpose more on empowering themselves through technology, scientific achievements, even fame or vanity. Government officials are complacent, celebrities are now reliving the Gala event like some Hollywood actresses or important figures on this technological reality. Some are ridiculed or considered outcasts for believing in the promise that they would return, as they are deemed 'crazy' or 'religious fanatics' or 'stuff of the old' by those who have already reached the social ladder or have been integrated into the status quo of society.
Now then, let us enter the life of Ava Sumeris - a genetically modified teenager, despite being a product of her parent's eugenics she lived an ordinary life. Usually Ava would attend the school with futuristic technology, as she is about make her first step inside the entrance of the school, the door slid open and her feet gracefully walked through the school she attended the class
Back to Ava, as a student was overwhelmed by the information provided by Professor Raphael, her cybernetic implants allow her to memorize the information provided by Sir Raphael but without substance this only stirs confusion
She thought of herself as someone with cybernetic implants from birth like other elevated people of society, academics was easy for her - due to the mechanical nature of her mind what does it mean when she is a robot, don't know don't care
She never really thought about this deeply, as Ava pay attention to the class raphael continued scribbling in the board raphael went on a long ramble about quantum field theory, the most difficult theory in academics
Ava listens to the teacher, "I cannot believe how complicated that is. I can look at the math although it is not very easy. I could try to access whatever math I have and try to grok it…. Hmmm interesting, maybe I underestimated myself. I guess I can try to access my memory of what fermion is."
Raphael continues on the lecture, her mind was having difficulty due to the abstract and non mechanical nature of the lecture, Quantum field theory assumes that atoms by nature have a field like nature to them, quarks and stuff even extending to fermion and bosons, also considering gravitational field
Her mind has been wandering on the existence of beings higher than herself, she continues to ponder on magic. Her computer-like thoughts struggle to understand or grok the vastness of this abstraction. Guess not every genius gets to understand certain qualias
Ava's mind, "What does it mean when they are talking about some higher powers, what does it mean when they are going to return again? I think they are aliens or something. Nevertheless my quest for knowledge shall begin to unravel the nature of this called Gods…"
Ava's cybernetic mind tries to make sense of the lecture, but it falls flat as it just ends up trying to compute the advanced mathematics behind it - what she can do however is to recall it in memory so it will make sense in the future, soon enough class has already dismissed
She walks and walks
And walks throughout the forest, there were tall skyscrapers with futuristic qualities from the distance, and the environment was filled with friendly trees and oxygen, Hover cars from everywhere glided through the sky road. She continues to walk.
Where she stumbled upon a library, willing to take matters for herself. She read books on the Manga genre that are not of this world. Ava continued to read romance – the rusty ones, Science fiction, and other aspects of comics.
She relished reading comics and novels, she ought to procure comics and novels to her heart's delights, and there are various things she has stumbled upon one was spectral knights other is romance drama involving unrequited love
It was delightful to her heart's contents, seeing the complexity of human nature, she is already had enough of the comics she read and ventured outside once then
Indeed there are also ships as well, flying ships cruising through the skies.
As she continues to walk through the road, every step she makes, the stomp of her legs emitting clamping noises as if time is slowing down. Every step she makes clamp, and clamp noises she saw the beautiful ecology of the world she is in, flying robot and cars, skyscraper like towers even a beautiful breathable oxygen - it was beautiful to the point she continued walking
as she walked and appreciate her environment through her sense, a thought appeared on her mind
Ava line of thought "What is the meaning of love, how do I understand emotions how do I connect myself to the higher state of myself, what is magic" pondering to herself while she walks throughout the city
Suddenly something clicked in her mind, an idea that she must bring forth
Her feet making clamp noises
*Clamp*
*Clamp*
As she loses herself in thought.
As she delves more, she senses a very odd sense of belonging, but she wants to find out more. As she continues to walk through the road with futuristic buildings, she sees Hover Cars everywhere aligned with the road with them hovering above but not below clouds which helps humans traverse the platform safely.
It begins to transcend whatever thought she may have beyond the computability and mathematical complexity (even transcending Game theory) of whatever she saw or read in the comics or novels.
While buildings imbued with specular metallic material are seen through her view as she thinks about the entertainment she had filled herself with.
Ava continues to observe the humans to see if they resonate with the entertainment she had indulged for a while. Her observation continues to observe forth, as her deep-green eyes looked at the intricacies of humans, her mind attempting to do statistical analysis on them, for one instance she sees children playing with their parents (well one in particular) she continues to stare on it for a while, her somewhat rather automata mind classified this as "Parental love"
Soon Ava lands her gaze on a couple, yes you heard that right! a 'couple', this particular couple appears to be loving one another. Her eyes lay on them, she notices a part in men that seems border in intensity beneath the exterior of two opposite gender holding each other, one appears to be a beautiful lady in her younger 20's with blackish hair with brown eyes, the male on the other hand appears to be a lean body type standing 5'12 foot with tan skin.
This beautiful lady asked if she can go buy an ice cream the male went with a resounding "Yes", the male appears to be wanting to please her, as they went to an ice cream cart nearby, the male paid through virtual cash
Ava continues to observe seeing if her mind can classify this dynamic she was expecting it would be romance, a surprising find was made deep computer analysis shows 70% percent doable truth – 30% seems to hinge in idealization that was hidden underneath. The male according to deep analysis appears to be enthralled on having her to be his missing piece of the soul, as in love the idea of having her in his side.
Has it occurred to Ava that this person in some way desires her and idolizes her, a material for his compensation-?
"No", Ava denies to herself
"This doesn't seem extrinsically true in the slightest." Ava looked again and saw the male gazing up at the woman, his romantic partner as his pet.
Ava introspect to herself "Hmmmm, maybe I am overthinking something. Could this be what they call 'Obsession' that people have gossiped about trivially?" Ava continues to observe until the male looks at him and frowns his eyes on the female, where she makes a solid retreat and continues to walk away, leaving this couple up to their business. Ava makes her way walking away from the encounter she had stumbled upon, one that sparkles curiosity – Ava can see that the female's delicateness would make a man like him feel like a protector but it was not of 100% certainty that something like an obsession bordering on idealism would be plausible.
Ava was in deep thought, her mind trying to decipher the underlying nature, but only met with futility in the search for penetrating truth
No amount of processing would it take for her to finally parse the following observation and event. Bits by bits, even surging through every novel and comic she recalled during her recent solo novel entertainment in the library.
Ava continues to walk, her mind trying to make sense of it, in her own eyes she was seeing visual interfaces and synergy of her grey matter and her cybernetic mind processing it with ostensible faculties.
Ava then walked away her brain's gears are rotating as she walks and walks and walks. Her mind is very empty, she has no thoughts at all no feelings to even experience, she was empty
Steps by step all meticulously but slowly growing inwardly incoherent over time.
She continues to walk through the streets with all the flying cars coasting through the air and altitude of the towers
She observes the superficiality of people, some with plain futuristic clothes, the petty politics in play with those who desire power in the game or government, in here everything behind the simplistic minimalist life is nothing but sunken – there was only emptiness. Has science in this world gotten static, has our question for life and meaning gotten fluid?
In ways that only a divine leader or higher being can lead these people into spiritual fulfillment but cut that part out of the equation, whether it be fiercely teleological that we require a spiritual representative, yet people decides to seek it with other means
One would need to survive on one's own virtues or talents to arise and seek the apex of what humans in this world are benign to seek after – that they haven't understood very well. Whatever spark of essence comes before humans, hopefully it is something we can be satisfied with, but for now we must survive in this spiritually deserted world beneath the exterior of a functional and healthy ecosystem hiding a big secret.
(Ava's mind): There are many things that I have realized after observing humans, I seek to understand the plane of existence – the platonic world of humans, but I am not there yet and I do not understand, I can feel empathy but I fear its fakeness and the need of belonging but at the same time I am not human, is it because of my nature? For what I know most people in this world had procured cybernetics implants or perhaps just cybernetic in nature"
(Ava's mind): I will seek my place in this grand tapestry of life! But how do I find what is in for me?
Ava endeavors to find her place in this world even if it's not apparent to her, she will seek to find the true meaning of life beyond the materialistic confines even beyond her species
Her feet make their moves as she entertains her soliloquy and protagonist-like declaration on the fly.
Whether her life threads on a bad fate or good fate it's up to one's free will or predeterminism that is set upon her in this expedition of identity
Soon she returned home, her door open with a sound. Her mother gracefully waves at her, "Welcome home, dear daughter!" with a smile
Ava looks at her and showed gratitude with, "Yes, I am home at last" while holding the door knob that hasn't fully closed
The mother walked up to her and asked "Honey? What's the matter, you don't seem particularly in high spirits now?"
Ava makes her walk to the table pulling the chair away from the table and sat where she answered, "nothing, I found a new source of entertainment – even then I still wondered if I am capable of feeling or actually processing like an actual human."
The mother named Cassandra makes her walk near Ava and reassures her, "Honey, you don't understand you may be partially robot but you are still human like your brother and me - you are not so different from the others." The mother makes her way to the kitchen to bring out a regular dish for her daughter's return.
A dish with eggs and bacon.
Ava went out of her way to grab the fork that was prepared on the table and pitched the egg to her mouth. She chewed the bacon as it digest to her stomach
While she eats, her mind was still in deep thought about her ability to cognize the platonic nature, her metacognition was not very evident or known but her need to recognize any sense of essence that was in her heart and her ability to connect with others or perhaps transcend has been challenged – she was never prompted to think about it until now.
Ava saw her mother as a regular person, she was almost ethereal in a way that people like her would be recognized – her looks were quite eye catching soft feminine face with a slightly shorter flowy hair that embodies femininity but to Ava she was a normal person to her as if she was in her higher 20's
she was nice but not too nice – it's clear that she has no acknowledgement of her daughter's personhood while her mother acknowledge the eugenics experimented done to her it's almost as if Cassandra sees her as a mere younger extension of herself, even wondering what kind of internal roadmap Ava as an observer - soon enough Ava got bored and climbed the stairs to her room where she watched animations or videos about her time
her time was chirping in the focus of her monitors, from a span of minutes to a few hours. She read articles from other people, she watched shows of her time where shows from the bygone era were removed or perhaps obscured in scarcity.
She can only just watch people or shows with detachment, she wanted that longing - her life was so boring and hollow. She wanted to experience more, but no matter how much she tries to imitate anyone in her mind, it didn't work as she pondered through
One must beg to question the very notion of love, to Ava it is ineffable something she cannot fully grasp for her conscious mind as her needs are usually on tandem with her self-preservation - this was the basis of the society she lived in, everything in her world was rich, yet minimalistic and secure nothing but boredom as her blank slate mind
To reiterate society has gotten it's inherit reset after its rulers have left the planet or its plane of existence, who are we to fend for but ourselves in this tapestry of politics and its grandeur majesty to affirms one's own existence with any means necessary, as Ava stared at the monitor
Her brother came, his name was Max, he entered the room and asked "Hey, Ava. Do you have some chips for me"
Ava looked at him with curiosity, "No, why?"
Max responded with, "I am hungry."
Ava nodded and made her move and asked, "Want me to get some chips for you?"
Ava walks up to her computer and orders chips for him with flavors that Max had told her about, flavors that bear resemblance to cheese, or crackers.
Ava then sat on her chair, relaxing. She did not fully notice that the obedience for her brother was out of love and adoration – as she was used to having her brother max her biological relative in their house, but she wasn't sure if what she was doing was love it seemed like a biological or moral imperative for her to do; as soon as she is finally done satisfying Max
She hopped on her bed, and read books she borrowed from the library. One would say that she is still in her bed wondering about the platonic sense of relationship, as she never considered the love and care of her parents
Although she did somewhat well in school, it was something expected by her parents due to her nature. She never even considered too much about the origins of her cybernetic brain, as she believes it is the consequence of the civilization she was raised in where anyone can be cybernetic given the abundance of wealth you have. As she lay in the bed her cybernetic brain connects to the network listening to stuff of various articles and a surge of information that is overflowing to her inner computer interface
but at the same time when connecting to the internet, she is vulnerable to psychological alterations or overwhelming stimulus. As she sees herself inexplicably on the precipice of awakening aside from her past NPC-like nature, she became aware of her fundamental human nature as she became somewhat semi-aware of things beyond what her materialistic and boring life has concealed from her, as she is used to having things done for her easily by her techno-bio origins
Ava continues to interface with the internet of her world. She became more aware than ever but it's still nascent, alas she continues to indulge her time in the network through her mind.
She continued to absorb trivial information or news, some are so mundane that it's like a jumbled encrypted mess in her memories.
Just a little bit of her at the age of 6 she learned C and its rudiments, at the age of 12 she learnt basic electronics and so on. Her mind being able to understand and piece machine language as English but is unable to speak it due to lacking proper human linguistics
She felt hungry and decided to order some food online to keep her dopamine steady and optimal while she worked on some project, regarding technology but it's mostly just hobbyistic technology.
she even dabble on other areas like robotics, and advanced algorithms where she works all her knowledge
just to stave off boredom, actually this is how she staves off boredom, usually looking at today's technology trend and learning how to to do nerdy stuff
She also has hobby of reverse engineering the art of breaking codes to do other things as well
She peered through every line of code in the screen with utmost efficiency
One is a program written by an AI prematurely showing a lot of memory addresses that can be easily touched upon by an injection, presumably a client-to-client software.
She continued to dabble with code, eventually she got bored and made programs out of fun, she types in the keyboard with hectic activity
~tap~
~tap~
~tap~
Ava then moves the mouse around where she browses the internet full of threads, one with innocuous memes and cutesy posts. She moves the cursor to her whims exploring every thread that piques her interest, once again staving off her boredom.
Not only that she plays videos in the internet times two the speed of their default, since she is confident that she can binge and retain the information gathered from the mp4 file
She was still on her computer until it's time for her to rest. She rested for a few minutes, still thinking about what to do with her life. She lay on the bed, as gravity pulled her to the futuristic bed with displays of closets with pleasant plastic like texture of her room's walls
She pondered about life, she was just there staring up in the room bored to tears she did everything in her mind to stimulate dopamine but it meant nothing
as she stared, her eyes were starting to flicker where it shuts
but she was still awake, she was still in her resting state
"What to do, what should I do now?"
Ava stood from her bed, she is still lost on what she wants to do, her own weary inner state is killing her. She longed for an experience where she can be something else.
She is still in a coma, trying to integrate herself together.
Wondering. Processing
Deciding to see life beyond her current self
Still that insatiable need for something, its roots are sown. Her mind begged, "What to do, what to do"
Ava continues to rest, her mind looks at the internet and finds materials regarding Network exploitation, she sees the ICMP (Internet Communication Message Protocol) passing to each other through a network, after the tutorials she had been absorbing.
She has been reading a lot of things in human psychology and novels trying to understand humans in their fundamental state, while performing analysis with her mind
It begs to question, what can she do with this technique? Could she perhaps try to perform social engineering? She knows that she has a cybernetic brain capable of accessing the Internet of Things
So, Ava decides to analyze her parent's personality, and their reception towards stuff. Ava went out of her room to observe Cassandra, her mother and her caretaker.
Ava thought to herself "She is a normal person, absolutely normal. She was a female with dark-brown hair adorned with hazel eyes equipped with an apron with a very young appearance. She was an example of a very feminine woman."
As Ava continued to observe her, she smell a calculating manner in her behavior, as if all of her actions were preceded with deliberation, her mind suspects something odd about her and so she did what no other well-behaved children did
She sneaks into her room, and discovers that she was a former politician that has a history of charming men and females alike with her cleverness and wiles based on her obsolete pictures and the resources she can gather, inexplicitly it may come through her subconscious effort.
But all that Ava knows is that her mother was a very witty, and social savvy person. Who could present herself as a charming warm woman, whilst secretly collecting information from other people into her mind. Ava doesn't know what to make of Cassandra's supposed nature.
Ava makes her way out, trying not to get caught, but her mother stops her.
"Ava, where were you? You weren't often in my room?"
She responded with
"Nothing, I was just looking for something."
The mother replied with a confused face.
"And what is that exactly, is it something you are curious about?"
Ava responded with a brief vague answer.
"Uhm, just something."
Cassandra just smiles at him, while still donning her apron as her dress as she tends to her motherly task.
Ava went on her way to make her way out and she went on trying to figure out her dad next. Unfortunately for her, he is very absent. She barely knows her father, as they barely interacted due to his busy work as a researcher. She continues to research her father.
Ava tries to access any registry in the internet or somewhere through her cybernetic mind to see if she can locate her father Victor and his whereabouts. He found some information but it's very publicized. He was indeed a scientist, but his work is in a private area somewhere on earth.
Most of Ava's attempts to access were extremely classified, pertaining to his work in his collaboration. Ava decides to sneak in to his father's work somewhere in a secluded area away from sector 451. She readies her hacking tools, a jammer, or a reverse engineering kit and her interface device with an antenna.
As Ava makes her way to the research, she attempts social engineering. She disguised herself as a guard trying to access the laboratory, she tried to trick the guards with a fake made up ID but the advancements in fraud detection system caught her.
The guards pulled up on her, and restrained her to the ground.
*Bump*
The guard shouted, "Stay where you are" while the fraud detection system consisted of an advanced neural network capable of detecting any slight unease in the material of the ID and its composition by 80%.
The fraud detection system was integrated into a camera like some sort of microchip, whose feed is sent to the database for machine learning analysis.
Ava was frustrated where she muttered in her suppressed breath, "Of course, they are a bunch of nerds with white coats! It's no secret that they will defend their base from threats as much as they can. If only I can hijack it"
The guards continue to tackle her to the ground. Before being tasered down to the ground. She was stunned, immobilized with her eyes opened before the guards carried her through their arms to the faculty
The security guards handcuffed her, and lifted her, where she was being carried to the faculty. The faculty was eventually alerted, as she was being carried to the faculty to which she had arrived. The futuristic door opened and Ava was escorted to the front of the executives as she is forced to sit in a chair
The faculty members whose names were Head Clara Mendoza and Vice-President Peter Floyd both looked at Ava while standing up, alongside the other important members of the faculty. The faculty was adorned with sleek soft metallic surfaces with neon lights resembling magnificence and tranquility, it was a representation of those in the upper echelon
Clara Mendoza makes a quick reaction.
"What is the meaning of this, a mere teenager trying to infiltrate our research borders?"
Peter Floyd in his authoritative anger voice his words pointing at Ava
"Explain yourself!"
Peter Floyd's head turns to the guards before addressing an artificial intelligence which is active somewhere in the room.
"Computer, bring up information on this individual."
The computer requests access to the Main Headquarters database, in its efforts to course through the database. The security camera of the room locks into Ava as it registers its facial information
Soon information regarding her was laid bare before Ava and the faculty, A teenager who studies in Unison University of Engineering and Technology.
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Cognitive biometric: Cybernetically enhanced
Relatives: Father Victor Sumeris, Mother Cassandra Lee
They also regard the fact that Victor was considered a capable scientist in their department.
They look at Ava.
"Soo this is the daughter of Victor? Funny considering that our esteemed researcher has stated that he has not visited nor interacted much with his offsprings except for his wife." Clara observed at Ava with detached interest
While Ava was silent there was a hint of defiance that was etched in her face but due to the predicament she is in – she has the right to stay silent until further notice.
Ava continued to stay silent, she was still restrained.
Oh, look at these people wondering to these people, they are pretty much dumbstruck that someone like me had the audacity to break into their security. Now they're just barking at each other
Snippets of the conversation go like this
"So, what do we do with this kid?" Clara asked
"I don't know, maybe put him in detention?" Peter Floyd suggested
"Detention, that may sound fair. But let's not forget she is a child of one of our esteemed researcher" Clara Mendoza replied with conviction.
"Huh, perhaps we have some use for her. But are you sure?" Peter Floyd pragmatism shows
"No, she's too young but she will be monitored. We will have Victor informed of her sudden intrusion" Clara Mendoza concluded with her mouth
Clare invoked "Security! Return her back to her house but first inject her with an amnesiac attack"
The security guards that were in standby nods especially those who strapped Ava on the chair for questioning held Ava furiously down to the ground before injecting a syringe capable of inducing an amnesiac effect to her neck rendering her memory senseless especially her body incapacitated temporarily.
Ava's consciousness passes out before the guards drag him where they put her in the car and inform Victor about the situation.
The vehicle started to roam, its hover pads engaging where Ava is at the moment suffering from amnesia, which puts her in a state of coma.
The vehicle continued to mobilize before it settled near the house, Ava's comatose body was dragged by the two guards where they informed the mother of what happened.
The mother was shocked to hear her daughter's audacity to infiltrate her husband's workspace
A Classified one. After all, anything of a breach in secret facilities could spell trouble – this was common sense. Could you see it, could you sense it, this was a new development in her daughter's nature. A rebellious spirit that is found within developing teenagers. A phase, but that is bold and could spell federal threat, if left unchecked