Mission

For the last thirty minutes, she was running. Every step was a struggle to save every breath of her life. The war was over. What had been dimmed for years like an imagination or illusion now became a mirror of reality and was seen very clearly. The scene was heart-breaking. The destruction and fury were heart-wrenching. Only ashes were scattered in all directions. Fear, grief, and dilemma appeared on the face of the woman who was running away from the shadow of death. Sweat was pouring from her body like rain. Her heart was beating so fast that her ears pounded. With that beat, the chaos created by the surroundings rushed with its deadly sounds.

The body chasing her was also running relentlessly like hers, but his physical ability was ten times higher than the body running to save her life. Pushing the steps that were getting closer and closer, she made her way through the debris strewn nearby, melting into the darkness at full speed on the floor of an abandoned building where no one could see or feel her.

The body plunged into the darkness as if in a semi-conscious state. She was dying from exhaustion. The body standing outside the building looked furious. The anger and shock were mingled on his face. After following her for a long time, the woman successfully disappeared from his alert eyes. He trembled in disgust. How did a very ordinary human being overcome him? That thought was unbearable. His huge eyes panted in all directions.

At the same time, the light of the past flashed before the two panting eyes hidden in the shroud of darkness. The scene arose as if to give the trembling body a moment's mental rest.

A tiny newborn baby came out of the nurse's hand. The pain of childbirth disappeared from the tired face as if it was never there.

"Congratulations!"

The nurse's words flowed like honey in the ears. The warmth of the man's hands placed on the shoulders seemed to erase the fatigue of the whole body.

"Amu, our prayers have been answered. After all these years, God has finally heard our plea. In his house, there is delay, not lawlessness. You have become a mother, and I..."

"Father..."

On those words of the past spoken by her own mouth, as if the scene was forcibly cut from the eyes. In the darkness of the present, the same word came out of the mouth again, which had come out to complete the man's sentence that night of childbirth.

"Father!"

With that word, it was as if the time of rest was over, and the body trembled again. Another scene seen before the eyes flashed through the dark mind. The blood-soaked body of the same man was shaking the heart.

"Summer..."

Convinced that no scream should come out of her mouth, she pressed her lips forcefully with her hand. Flames flowed from the eyes. Unbearable pain started screaming in every silent corner of the mind.

At the same time, the chaos outside became stronger. The wave of victory spread in all directions. The war was over. A festive atmosphere was being celebrated on the ash heap. Cheers of victory echoed in the air from all directions. The body outside the building became more restless. Words started coming out of the mouth.

"Where did she go? She is nowhere to be seen! It is my duty to put an end to her existence. If the duty fails..."

As the thought became unbearable, his eyes began to wander around like the wounded lion's eyes. The gun in hand was impatient to be discharged. Hands were shaking with passion. The frustrated legs were circling in every direction.

The war was to end at his hands. That was destiny.

On the other hand, the flood of suffering in the darkness was flowing silently. One after the other, many scenes were emerging in the mind at high speed. She had heard many times. At the moment of death, the man saw his entire life flash before his eyes like a black-and-white movie. But today, that belief was becoming a reality in front of her eyes.

The smell of a newborn baby, the cradle, the bouncer, the toys, the lullabies, the baby's first step, the baby shower...

"Sahaj, Sahaj...!"

Hands of a man and woman cuddling a baby with echoes, baby's first birthday, cake titled with 'Happy First Birthday, Sahaj', balloons, gifts, presents, gathering of guests, party, celebration, and joy...

The pain flowing from the eyes was gaining momentum with one scene after another.

"Sahaj!"

Even that word was buried in the grave of the mouth that was pressed so hard with fearful hands.

At the same time, a watch strapped to the hand of a body standing outside the building vibrated. That vibration was forcing the alert body to become more alert. The restlessness of the mind was also reflected in the body movements. There was a demand to form a bridge of communication with him. He had full knowledge of the reason. However, there was no eagerness or willingness to build a bridge of conversation in his body gestures. The duty had not yet reached its conclusion. The brainstorming reached a climax and again the wristwatch began to vibrate. It was not possible to get rid of the situation. Accepting the matter willingly, he pressed the button, and an immediate bridge of communication was formed from the other side.

"Hello, where are you? Not here yet?! We did it! We've won. They've lost. The celebration has already begun. There's not a single human left on the entire planet. Now the planet will have an AI empire. We shall have an empire. Now we are the present and the future of this planet. The man who created us to improve his own future is only a thing of the past. It was bound to happen. But you still..."

A strange momentary silence fell between the half-delivered dialogue. Confusion about what to respond to the words being heard from the other side was met with utter silence.

After a momentary silence from the other side, the conversation was quickly taken up again. This time the voice became louder and more strict than earlier.

"Don't tell me, you have not yet... do you have to be reminded?! This is a war between human and AI. You are AI, and a human is standing against you. The same human who created us for his own selfishness. He felt that he would use us as his slaves. The intellect with which he created us did not even have the power to think that when the creation is more powerful than the creator, the creator has to pay the price. This is the fruit of their karma, and guilt is fitted into our programming as a definition only, not as a command or mandate. Do your duty and join us here as soon as possible. A new world awaits you. Over and out!"

The thread of conversation was cut off from the other side. As if those words had pushed him, he got ready for his duty with more enthusiasm than before. The gun in hand came into a tight grip aimed. A suspicious vision darted towards the building behind, and without wasting a moment, the scattered footsteps made their way through the rubble and melted into the darkness within the building.

Every furrow of the woman's body stood up in the darkness. Her eyes widened in horror as death appeared before her eyes with the staggered steps inward. Every effort to stop the body's tremors was unsuccessful. Flashes of light from the thrown laser beam probed every corner. Finally, between the play of darkness and light, the woman's body became visible.

The footsteps that entered stopped for a moment and then slowly took off towards the woman crouching on the ground, echoing the sound of heavy boots. With the echo of each step, the woman's sobbing began to form a bridge with more and more sound. As it was not logical to stand up and run for self-defense, to run away or to try anything else, the shocking body was lying in the same place. The entered body pointed the gun in the woman's direction as if waving a victory flag.

The woman's torn eyes became dry. The edge of crying stopped. Astonishment and disbelief forced her lips involuntarily, a muffled voice rose to the standing body.

"You can't do that. How could you... your hands have not shaken slightly as you shot your father in the chest?! How much did he love you, Sahaj?!"

The dry eyes started watering again. The voice became angry. It was the extremity of pain. The body standing in front was still erect. Facial expressions were flat. Not even an iota of guilt was present in it. The gun became more pointed, and the words from that body took on the garb of practicality, oozing out under the cloak of mechanicality.

"Love?! What kind of love?! What love?! The definition of love that fits into my programming is this - love is a human emotion. Loving the other person selflessly without any selfish expectation of getting anything in return. Without desire, without hope of changing the other person, accepting him as he is and caring for him, pampering him, showering feelings and emotions selflessly love."

As if the mechanical words uttered from the front had broken her heart into a thousand pieces, the woman's mouth burst out with a heartbroken cry of pain. As if that cry did not make any difference to him, the words were coming out like a recording from the body standing in front of her.

"If you and your husband had loved me, they would have accepted me as I was. But both of you were ashamed of my weak intelligence. My intelligence was not normal. Not like other children. So my behavior was also different. You felt extremely humiliated when people called me 'dumb'. Man was also strange! When he felt comfortable, he took refuge in God and faith, and when he needed it, he fell at the feet of science. You too chose science over nature. When the research to fit AI into the brains of mentally retarded children and make them super intelligent was successful, you upgraded my natural intelligence with AI. If only I had been like as I was, today..."

The sentence was left unfinished. The bullet from the gun went straight into the woman's heart. The woman's eyes widened. Edges of blood could be seen hiding through the laser beam.

As the duty was completed, the body standing in front turned backward with mechanical speed. The button on the wristwatch was pressed as he left the building.

Finally, the announcement was offered with extreme pride.

"Planet earth's last human is also dead. The A.I. has won. Over and out!"