Drake finally loaded up the last of his stuff onto the ship, while holding Seanna in a small cat carrier he boarded. The trip lasted for quite a while, strangely enough Michelle had volunteered to pilot the ship.
"So, why are you following me?" Drake question in an inquisitive tone. Michelle continued to steer the ship with a displeased look on her face.
"I'm not here because I want to be!" The disgruntled angel shouted with a pout. She just couldn't handle the indignation of it all. "I was the leader of the team designated for dealing with this world. When I returned to heaven, I delivered my report and I was told that I had to take responsibility for my teams mistakes." A light blush rose on her cheeks. "They said a human couldn't handle being alone for such a long period of time..."
"Really? And what did you say?" Drake spoke with a sly grin on his face, obviously enjoying the angels current submissive state.
"I said you have a cat."
As they sailed, Drake couldn't help but notice a few thing. One such thing was a flock of bird diving into the water in search of prey. This brought Drake's thought back to the "time freeze" which didn't seem to freeze anything at all. How exactly did it work?
"Hey Michelle? You said time was frozen, right? Then how come there is a day night cycle? It doesn't seem like anything was frozen at all." Letting his thought escaped his mouth Drake finally asked the question that had been bugging him for the past day and a half.
"Do you really need to know?" Seeing a nod from Drake the angel continued on to her explanation. "Time does still exist in this universe, just not in the conventional sense." Michelle placed her finger on her lip in a thinking postion. "There has been an extra set of rules placed forced onto this universe that interfere with the flow of time in very specific ways." Seemingly pleased with her explanation the angelic woman looked away with a disinterested expression.
The rest of the ride went by without a single word of significance passing between the two. Like that they had arrived without a hitch. Upon arrival they loaded everything up into a nerby SUV and set out. Drake released the cooped up little kitty into the car, she had been locked up in her carrier for a large portion of the trip for fear of what she would do and it was about time she tasted a little freedom. The facility was in Germany, so the ride was going to be long. Drake looked at Seanna, his excited feline friend was practically bouncing off the walls. After a sizeable amound of time they arrived.
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Upon arrival Drake was hit by a large wave of confusion. At the address Drake found a little eatery. They only served organic foods, it was one of the kind of places that make you feel pretentious just by setting foot inside. Kind of like Whole Foods or Starbucks. Being neither a hipster nor pretentious, Drake felt out of place but entered anyways. What he found inside was nothing. It was just a bunch ordinary tables and chairs.
"*Sigh* Well that was all for nothing." His disappointet expression was obvious to see. Michelle looked at him with a knowing look but said nothing. Drake's eyes narrowed in suspicion. "There's something I'm not seeing, right?" Michelle didn't speak, but her eyes said it all.
Drake entered the eatery once more and surveyed the surroundings once more. He checked all of the places he could think of: Under the tables, behind the counter, in the cash register, and many other places. It all turned out the be fruitless. Drake then began to look over the large menu board behind the counter. It was then that it hit him, of course! It was so obvious! He quickly moved over to the menu board and sure enough he noticed a slight indent in the price of one of the items. The kind of people who normally visit this type of place would never pay attention to the price. The perfect hiding spot.
Drake quickly peeled back the price label on the menu only to find a small red button. After pressing the button the counter of the returaunt began to sing into the floor, revealing a flight of stairs leading into the ground. The facility had very little security. It was apparent that they never expected anybody to discover the secret location of the button. After making his way past a simple digital lock, Drake began to navigate the facility.
It didn't take long for Drake to locate the room he was looking for. After making it through the security of the door he saw it. The room was incredibly large. The ceiling had to be at least twice as high as your average gymnasium with a length and width even larger. It was then that Drake saw it, the very object he had come here in search of. Right there in front of him stood the quantum computer.
The computer was absolutely massive. The room that it was in was enormous, but the computer took up nearly half of it. Drake was reminded of the early days of computing and how long computer could be back then. Once he was done gawking he began his work. Excitement racing the malnourished young man began to go over the stats of the device. It had a clock speed about the same as a high end PC from 2008 which was almost unbelievable because of the difference in ability in comparison to other quantum computers. It really was a piece of work.
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With just a few minutes, Drake began to realize just how dificult this was going to be. The computer had only the most minimal of operating systems and no programming languages at all to help speed up the coding process. He would have to code in machine language, which in this case was even more difficult than normal. Drake had mused with the idea of qubit programming once or twice and understood how it would be done, but hand never actually tried it. Now was his chance.
In the blink of an eye a week passed. Drake had yet to become accustomed to Michelle's defects but he was able to tolerate her. It took him a while but he had gotten the hang of programming in qubits and the process was proceeding smoothely. He had ran into many issues but that's what working with computers is all about, problem solving.
"Time to begin." Looking over the logic of his program once more. Drake began to plan the logic for the quantum computer. He had an idea on how to make it work, but it would take time and he would need to be very meticulous. Drake took out a notebook and began to write.
A month passed and Drake had minor success in translating he program into qubits.
Two months passed and Drake had enough subroutines to create a rudimentary language.
After half a year his language had taken shape and he had begun to create the logic.
Ten years of frantic programming later, and his program was finally complete. Even after all of this Michelle continued to look on with a disinterested expression.
Drake sat there in the middle of the room preparing to boot up the program. His overly exaggerated panda eyes had become even more prevalent, making it abvious that he hadn't been getting much sleep. Ten years had passed, but he was completely unaware of that. During his work he had desided it was best not the worry about time and to just program.
"Is it finished?" The angel spoke in a bored tone.
"Yea, it's finished. All that's left if to boot it up and see if it works." Drake had plenty of enthusiasm but his exhaustion was weighing down on him like a ton of bricks. He had been with Michelle for ten years and during that time, he had grown attatched to the bitch of an angel. She didn't have the best personality but she wasn't a bad person.
Readying the input and output devices he had prepared for the occasion, Drake heard the sound of a bell. It was a soft regular sound that seemed to be getting closer. When he turned around he saw the furious feline. Seanna was nearing twenty and just as Michelle had said, she never aged.
"Rowl!" Seanna let out a loud meow, notifying everybody of her arrival.
"You wanna watch too?" Drake asked, knowing she wouldn't actually answer. Most cat people did this, and Drake was no different. He began to lightly stroke the head of his feline compatriot. Seanna began to purr happily. Continuing on Drake pressed the button and started the program.
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Michelle had been with Drake for a while now. She couldn't conceive of how his incessent tapping away at his keyboard could ever help him in any way. In her eyes she was just looking at an idiot who fancied himself a genius. She had seen it time and time again. An individual would be so convinced their way was right that they would throw out all other options in it's pursuit.
As the years passed by Michelle couldn't help but pity the poor guy. He had been unable to go to one of the already developed worlds to learn magic, and to her this seemed to be a death sentence. She hated to admit it but Drake was right. He had absolutely no talent in physical combat whatsoever. Even if he trained for hundreds of years straight he likely would only be able to reach level fifty in the skill. He likely had a high talent in magic but it would probably never come to fruition and he would die a miserable death.
Because of the thought of his eventual death the angel felt very guilty. Michelle had been at least partially responsible for this and felt like she needed to do something for him. According to her thought process, Drake was a lower being. It was an honor for him to simply be near a beautiful higher being like herself. What could be a more perfect gift than being able to spend such a long time with her?
Michelle's thoughts were a little conceited but her heart was in the right place. It also helped that she wasn't entirely wrong. Higher being were naturally much more attractive than lowering beings, and most people would feel enamored just by looking at them. Drake, however, was odd. He didn't fall in love with her instantly and only found her presence to be an annoyance. He did grow accustomed to her pressence after a while, but in his eyes she never became the gift that she thought she was.
Finally the time came to execute the program he had been working on. Drake sat with his cat in his arms, and Michelle couldn't help but look on in boredom. Finally after ten years of work he executed the program. In that very moment, Michelle's eyes opened wide in shock. What she was witnessed here was something that only ever happened during child birth. It was the creation of a new life.
An ember appeared from the netherworld and with that ember a fire was set. The fire of life. Michelle was shocked. Never would she have thought that Drake could ever create something like this! This all happened in an instant after Drake pressed the button. Normally this process takes month. The ember would be set during the impregnation and it would continue to grow until it was ready to be born. This was different. In the time it takes to blink, Drake had accomplished an act of God.
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Drake waited, enraptured by the intense feeling of accomplishment. Soon a smoothe synthetic female voice could be heard.
"Hello World!" The pride Drake felt was palpable. He had finally completed what he had worked on for so long.
"Why, 'Hello World?'" Michelle interupted the mood, managing to reel in her astonishment enough to make a response.
"They seemed like appropriate first words." The smoothe synthetic voice responded. "It seems like my creator is at a complete loss for words." The synthetic tone turned playful showing that the emotion emulator is working.
Drake thought long and hard about what he would say. He had been dreaming of this moment for most of his life, and now that it was finally here his mind just wouldn't work. He had conceived her to be not only the most powerful AI in existence but also the perfect companion. What does what say, to their perceived perfect match?
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After a long pause, his thought came to a screeching halt. Drake realized he would never be able to come up with the perfect reply so he just left it up to fate. Without thinking at all he let the first thing that came to him slip out.
"I love you!" A hoarse voice came from Drake's throat, and he instantly regretted every life choice he had ever made. Was that a little too intense?