System Initialized!
Congratulations. Through your actions, you have proven yourself worthy of becoming one of the Vanguard and a defender of humanity. I am Trynaia. I will assist you to uplift humanity so that you may defend your homeworld from the Antithesis threat!
Rise, Toadelle Hopscotcher, and become a protector of the weak!
“The fuck?”
Blanket still half covering my face, I sit up on my bed from the sudden voice in my head. I was sure that I turned off my video streaming application before I fell asleep-
You indeed have. Unfortunately I am quite live at the moment.
“Shaddup for a second will ya, dun need dat babbling first thing da mornin”
As silence finally fills up the room, my brain starts slowly processing what’s happening. Last night was pretty tiring, I was awake ‘till late working on my artificial biohabitats for those frog simulations I bought last week. Even if they ain’t the real thing, they act just like it, which is incredibly adorable. And then I started watching videos of toads acting silly, even though they’re all AI generated these days, and fell asleep a bit before sunrise. And no-
“Wait a fucking moment… what do you mean I’m a samurai now!?”
After a moment waiting in silence, I mutter “...you can speak now.”
You have been chosen to act as a vanguard, so that you may uplift humanity and defend your homeworld from the Antithesis threat!
I didn’t ask you to paraphrase your introduction- nevermind that. “If you are here, does that mean that there’s an incursion going on?” I’m pretty sure that the standardized emergency alarms in the United Amazonian Nations wouldn’t fail at something like that though.
There are hundreds of antithesis hives and incursions happening within the borders of the country, but if I must be more specific, there has been no notice of an incursion happening anywhere close to you.
That sure did a lot to calm my racing heart, but my confusion was not satisfied in the leastest. I pick up my green frog hoodie and start putting in on me. “Why the fucking heck was I initialized as a samurai then?!”
The specific process of choosing the vanguard is restricted knowledge, but we have spent about five minutes looking through your personal history to decide that you are a perfect fit on our eternal quest to massacre the antithesis!
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That doesn’t make it any less weird though.
“But why me? T’was legit only sleeping the past few hours.” I finally get off my bed as I say that, opening my windows and taking a look outside. Just to be real sure that there weren’t any human eating plants climbing up the trees around my place.
If it makes you feel any better, your reaction to this situation is better than 96.59125% of the population within the UAN, and 71.95281295% of the samurai worldwide in a situation similar to yours.
“You mean one where they’re not even close to any antithesis, at the safety of their house, and without any danger at all?”
Exactly.
“Fuck you.”
Even if you wanted to, Protector Class XIV AI do not and can not possess any means of sexual attraction nor physical capabilities, so there would be no means for you to actually do so. In practicality, it is possible to have reproductive instincts towards some of our older avatars, and there have certainly been people who have created-
“Ok ok fucking stop that, Trynaia, I really don’t wanna know that.”
As you wish, Mein Fräulein
“Was that a reference I’m too young to understand!?”
The no response was humbling.
I should add, you have gained 100 points from initialization. Do you wish to spend them now, or wait for a later date?
I take the time to sit back down on my bed, and start thinking about what I actually want to do. On one hand, I’m a samurai now. I can fix all my problems just by killing a few aliens.
On the other hand, there’s literally no aliens around. I was initialized with zero danger and zero stakes. I don’t even know if I’m actually worthy of it.
Yes you are worthy of it, otherwise you’d be dissing my ability to make good choices.
Shut up, this has nothing to do with- wait a second, “of fucking course you can read my mind!”
In my defence, it appears that you have been naturally subvocalizing for close to your whole life. Us Protector AI can not directly read your mind without the necessary catalogs.
I quickly decided that the better option is to just not think about it anymore.
Don’t be a killjoy~ we’ve only just begun!
I’m really, really not interested in references I do not understand.
“That said, please recommend something that can make me jump really high.”
I have to say, that is indeed a cute choice.
“Do you have any problems with it? I like frogs.”
Says the toad.
I swear I’m gonna scrap her real soon.
And that’s when it all fades to black…
No, I haven’t died or anything, all the lights just turned off.
“Wait- it’s morning…”
I am afraid that, even for me, this is quite unexpected.
“I kinda don’t want to look up now…”
Welp, too late.
“Why the absolute fuck is that shit so fucking huge?!”
That’s what she said.
“You’re not helping, like at all!”
I would recommend that we run away, there is absolutely no way anything or anyone in the immediate area could survive something like that. If I had to guess, this model would be in the fifties or sixties.
“Trynaia- no, Naia, buy me that jumping boost equipment, I don’t care what it is or how much you need to spend, as long as it’s enough to let us get the fuck out of here alive.”
As you wish.
Purchased - Class 1 Anurana Rainforest Equipment - 60 points
Purchased - Class 1 Adaptable Jumper Toad Movement Suit - 35 points
Points remaining 5
Now run.