“A penny for your thoughts?”
Abraham Lincoln* #quote
Today I became emperor of the world but nobody noticed so I quit
before doing anything. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Another Discovery Off The List
“Well, they got the Higgs-Boson out of the particle collider
awhile back. That's another discovery off the list for the humans.
I'm proud of them.” I groaned. “I'm proud, but I wish I could
give them a few more nudges.”
“Speaking English for kicks again? You're getting attached to this
project.” My assistant told me.
“Oh, yeah. I guess I am. I wrote a poem in French yesterday. I do
love the languages these ones made.” I laughed.
Though I could groan and laugh because I took more human shape while
walking around spaceship as of late. I had no real true form being a
shape shifter. My insides weren't too human...still comprised of the
parts that let me shape shift and do so many different things. I
wondered what the humans would call me if I met them.
My assistant was the ships artificial intelligence. It kept me
company in the void of space. Wise company. And sometimes witty
company. If I asked it, the ship could crack a few jokes. Not many
humans would get.
My assistant's voice rang through the room. “You know not many
approve of what you're doing.”
“Trying to stop me from doing my hobby? Plenty of my kind like
it.”
“Only a few of your kind like your hobby. And many, many more
disapprove. Even your own family. And I'm pretty sure as humans call
it in English, God, would disapprove too. That's what you're doing:
playing God.”
“Why did I let father pick the artificial intelligence for the
ship? Of course it would have his morals and values! Stupid ship, if
I'm an immortal I may as well do something an immortal can do.”
“Did you really have to drop the meteor?”
“The dinosaurs would have never become what the humans are. True I
didn't know the humans would come to be...but I knew the dinosaurs
were a failure. I did what had to be done for my project to succeed.”
“And what if the humans don't become the advanced race you've been
wanting out of this life bearing planet you found? You going to guide
another meteor here?”
“Perhaps. If it's what necessary to make the best species
possible.”
“Now are you lying? Or are you too emotionally attached to erase
failed project now that you're so fond of it?”
“Shut up! If...if they fail to succeed at becoming the advanced
species I want them to be I'll send another meteor shove evolution
along a different path like before. I'll do it. But you know they
won't fail!”
“Let's see if that happens.”
“You sound just like my father you just want me to give up on
them, on my project. I won't need to erase them...will I?”
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