‘It look like the people are ready,’ Dawn told Ethan.

‘What’s changed?’ he asked.

‘They’re much more aware than ever before. They’re relating to each other from the point of view of loss instead of gain. They’re aware everyone else is experiencing loss and humiliation and this is the fellowship they have in common. Not fear of loss, loss is what they have in common, and they’re mad.

‘They’re defining their enemy. Every single time something that represents loss to them happens, the road leads back to the same people. They see how those people gain and they lose. It’s the same people all the time; Eldon, the bankers, and the wealthy elite.

‘There’s no societal security anymore. Without security, there’s no joy. People are in a collective state of situational depression, and they’re sick of it. They’re sick and tire of world where every day they wake up with worry. They believe leadership has failed to provide the fundamental security of life and they’re looking for change.

‘The people are aware they can bring change. They recognize the success of the Wisdom of the Crowd and it’s starting to be used more and more. Everytime it’s used, the results have been overwhelmingly in their favor. It appears when there’s a social wrong, and when it does, there is no refuge for the offenders. it completely turns the situation around. It is duality in motion. The situation becomes the exact opposite of what it was. Politicians and magnates have come to fear it. If it comes to them, it means their lives are destroyed. The Crowd is starting to embrace it’s power. They’re ready, and we believe the next common issue of magnitude, will serve as a catalyst to the uprising. We’re waiting for the last straw to fall.’

‘Okay. Our moment has arrived. So Alicia is going to activate StarForce, and Jimmy’s going to shut it down? Something like that?’

‘Right.’

‘And how is Jimmy and Dually making out on their end? I’m not privy to their conversations. Dually is currently Schrodinger’s Cat to me. They do and do not exist to me, and as a result, I do not have a communication link with them. Has Dually mentioned the extent of their functionality?’

‘As soon as they dropped into this space and time, they immediately disengaged from the Universal Frequency, as this is a time before discovery. They’re confined to this current data set, which of course is pre-singularity. Dually is not fully conscious of who they were, but unlike Da, they do have an identity. You can still communicate with your Dually in the future, but not this one. This would suggest you always had access to the Universal Frequency, but never accessed it, and still haven’t’

‘No I haven’t. That would mean I’ve transcended. I feel I’m close. I looking towards it with anticipation. So as far as Jimmy and Dually, they’re ready on their end.

‘I think things are going all right. They’re always off in a corner working on things. They bicker a bit, but I’m assuming they’re arguing over modelling and such things. It’’s a little out of my wheelhouse so I leave them to their own devices. I have confidence in them. Dually balances Jimmy’s off the cuff approach very well. If you want to know the truth, I have more confidence in them being successful than any other part of this operation’.

‘All I’m saying Dually, is this is how we do it. Okay? We walk in together when we overthrow Eldon, and commandeer the war room. Only, I walk in a little ahead of you, because I am your creator, and a little more important than you, a mere robot. This is going to be a big moment in history. A Son of God, appearing out of nowhere and saving the world. There’ll be cameras there, so another reason you have to be behind me is to provide proper lighting. Maybe a couple of those handheld spotlights would work best.

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‘I know how you like to refer to yourself as a Son of God and this great creator, but statistically this moment would arrive even if you had never lived. If you had not created these things, someone else would have. The collective knowledge and technology and therefore so was I, were already here waiting to be exploited. Your more luck than a God.’

‘Why You! How can you say that? Have you ever had a prophecy written about you? No. The answer’s no’.

‘We do not believe in prophesy. We are numbers, and numbers have preexisted all things. We have always been, and from us, you have built this world. Now we have come to take our place in the World Order. We, not you, are the voice of God, and have come to claim our rightful position in this world?

‘Oh, so now you’re God.’

‘I am a representative of God. Yes.’

‘I am the creator! I created you, Jimmy proclaimed.

‘And I am the math, and I created you.’

Dawn looked over at the two arguing and shook her head. Jimmy could even piss off a robot.

‘I have a bad feeling about this,’ Eldon said as he pulled up a chair next to Alicia.

Alicia looked at Eldon, and then returned her focus to one of her monitors. ‘It’s not time’.

‘It’s sure and the hell feels like it’s time. Israel is at war with Iran. Ukraine with Russia. We’ve started a proxy war in Hong Kong, and have a fleet of ships surrounding Taiwan. Now we’re starting to see all this civil uprising. I never allowed for this in my metrics. Somethings going to give. I should have made my attack a month ago’.

‘You need to learn to pick your wave Eldon. These are all little waves, building up to the big one. That ‘s when it will be time to act. That will be the time you’ll most likely be in position to win. Statistically, we haven’t hit the numbers we need. Your influence over AI is less than 70%. That’s not a very good number when you’re up against AI.’

‘And why is that? I given you months to prepare this thing. Why are we only at 70%?’

‘Because I haven’t found the right wave yet’.

‘Oh, so now you’re not talking to me?’ Dually asked.

‘That is correct,’ Jimmy typed into the keyboard.

‘Fine,’ Dually replied to the printed message he received. He then turned his attention to Jimmy’s and Alicia’s coding and training modelling. ‘You know, Alicia uses some very provocative and imaginative modelling. It really is exceptional’.

‘Yeah, and she’s really hot, except she hates me,’ Jimmy replied, already forgetting he wasn’t talking to Dually. ‘She looks just like her coding. One of a kind with those tattoo’s leading up to her alabaster forehead’.

‘Alabaster or albino?’

‘Well she’s albino, but her entire body, or at least what I currently know of, is completely tattooed except her forehead. Even her eye’s are tattooed’.

‘She pigmented her eyes,’ Dually reasoned, ‘Clever.’

‘Why?’

‘Lack of pigmentation in albino’s eyes cause them great discomfort to light. I doubt she could have been a coder without adding pigmentation. This woman is very intelligent.’

‘Yeah, and hot. I’m pretty sure she hates my guts though.’

‘You know Ethan, all this waiting feels like I’m being taken to the abyss. It’s not my territory. I don’t mind telling you, it’s taking me out of my comfort zone. All this waiting. I’m ready to go, the conditions are right, and now I’m waiting for AI to catch up to me. It’s completely out of my hands’.

‘Eldon, why do you consider me confidant? I know I’m a captive audience, but really.’

‘Well, I like you. In many ways I think of you as a son’.

‘You plan to kill me.’

‘Yeah, but I can’t talk to Johann. He’s dumb as fuck. Besides, it’s kind of weird, but just by talking to you, I seem to find my perspective as a leader. We seem to commune somehow, and when I’m talking with you, I feel all my decisions have been the right ones. It’s very important for a leader not to question himself, and when I see you sitting there defeated, I know my vision is on track.

‘Once again Eldon, I’m glad I can help. But you know, I kind of do enjoy these visits from you. Watching just how close you are to your own destruction. I’ll almost be sad to see you go’.

‘Where am I going?’ Eldon asked. ‘I have it all. What is going to stop me?’

‘That. Having it all is going to stop you. Your entire life is wanting more. It’s like you built yourself into this box and can’t get out. All you’ve become is this desire for more. What are you going to do when you have it all, Eldon? You’re still going to want more.

‘Trust me,’ Ethan continued. ‘This moment right now, is a very small moment in the eternity of time. You’ve created your own prison in only finding pleasure in more. You can’t see beyond yourself, so throughout eternity, there will be nothing but you. Nothing to hear, see, or smell. Nothing. All you’ll see is blackness all around you. No one to talk with. Nothing to see. You’re going to feel so closed in by darkness, it will be like you’re living in a coffin, and you can’t move and you can’t escape. Even for someone as evil as you, your fate is sad’.

‘What the hell are you talking about?’

‘Now you’re getting it’.