chapter 4

Zenyatta pov.

"Why are you here?" I asked the doom slayer. The slayer just looked at me with rage. It's silvery red eyes filled with anger. It grabbed his helmet and pulled out a cable that he hooked up to his tv. I watched as it showed a camera feed of his helmet pointing at us. The slayer then pressed a button that started rewinding to 3 days ago. I saw an omnic really close to the camera talking.

"I can't kill you. But I can't have you standing in my way." He held a giant red sword. "Until next time." Then the feed cut right to plunging in the ocean.

"So that omnic is the reason you are within our plane of existence?" I asked to which a circle appeared on the tv.

"Omnic?" I heard a voice ask as the circle glowed a bit as I floated up to the tv. "What's an Omnic?"

"I'm an Omnic." I said. "I have a soul despite my metal shell. We are a people. Just like anyone else." I looked back to the slayer. "We are born like anyone else just in different ways."

"Dr. Samuel Hayden is not an Omnic." The circle glowed. "Samuel Hayden was born to the powerful Hayden family and was a very prodigious intellectual and philanthropist. After he was appointed as General Director of the Global Science Council, the UAC recruited him. Soon after Argent energy was discovered on Mars, Hayden subsequently took over the leadership of the UAC. Soon after the Argent Tower was constructed in 2127, Hayden was diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer and left with a few months to live. Hayden avoided his death by transferring parts of his brain into a 3-meter tall mechanical body. It was implied that Hayden chose this form for his expeditions into Hell." I listened intently as the slayer laid on his bed looking mad.

"So what are you then?" I asked the glowing circle on the screen.

"I am V.E.G.A. I was created using a combination of advanced technology and Hell artifacts. I am fully sentient Artificial Intelligence that runs most if not all of the Mars UAC facility. Shortly after my creation, I was subjected to the Turing Test by having many university students ask the AI questions, using a volunteering professor to fact check the answers. By the end of the test, nearly 90% of the students were convinced that they were not talking to an AI, but an actual person. What the students did not know is that I also played the role of the professor. I assisted the Doom Marine by providing valuable intelligence on objectives, as well as allowing the Doom Marine to upgrade his suit. Near the end of the events on Mars, I determined the only way to open a third and final portal to Hell is by sacrificing myself to create the surge of Argent Energy needed to create a Hell portal. Upon returning from the Titan's Realm of Hell, I directed the Doom Marine in destroying the massive facility that makes up my processing center. After shutting down my neural processing servers, the Doom Marine proceeds in destroying the cooling facility that keeps me from overheating. When these are destroyed, I transported the Marine to my primary core to allow him to initiate a detonation of my core. However, at the last minute the Doom Marine saw the option to make a back-up copy of me on a datachip, which he did, storing the copied me within the Praetor suit although the Doom Marine's suit systems are not complex enough to power me. Which explains why I am still functioninh even at such little power. So with my purpose fulfilled, I had a final conversation with Dr. Hayden, in which i expressed that i had many regrets before my core exploded, opening the final portal to Hell for the Doom Marine. Though I do not remember those regrets. Interesting." I stared at the blue circle in amazement. I heard a knock on the door and turned to see Angela standing there with a clipboard and a bag of medical supplies. "I must go now." The circle said. "This bases A.I. is trying to purge me from the system." With that the circle faded.

"Well I guess I should leave you 2." I say floating out. "And may peace find you slayer." I say going down the hall running into Genji.

"Master." He said bowing. I nodded my head in response.

"Ah Genji how are you?" I asked as i floated next to him.

"Good master. I was just on my way to meet the new guy. He seems very interesting." He says.

"Why does everyone think it is a human?" I asked myself aloud causing Genji to stop.

"What do you mean master?" He asked as I turned to face him.

"That is a story for another day my student. Not when talking to it. Please be respectful." I hum opening my door. I close it behind me as I start my meditation letting my thoughts dwell on the slayer and his A.I.

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