An End...and a Beginning
I am Professor Genius.
I dont know if it was a dream that led me to that dark street on that particular night, or was it the hand of destiny...
The young detective's body lay on the cold pavement, still, motionless.
He's dead. But he's so young...I'll pick him up and take him back to my laboratory, perhaps I can give him a new life.
I picked up the young man's body and carried it to my car.
It was a long ride to my laboratory outside the city and I had plenty of time to think...
As a looked down the long expanse of seemingly endless highway, I started to recall the road that my own life had taken...and the detour in life's road that I had been forced to choose that led me far from everything that was once dear to me, my friends, my family, and the very country I once served.
Yes, I began to think, long and hard, to think about many years of hard work - and a Dream.
A Dream that I had long cherished...
That of giving a new body to an existing mind but more than simply the powerful body, I had planned to transfer all the existing thoughts, emotions, and knowledge in the human brain to an electronic brain that would vastly superior and virtually indestructable.
Therefore having a robot with human emotional and moral attributes My laboratory is coming into view...I soon would know.
The body of the young man once known as Special Agent Brady, an operative for the Metropolitian International Law Enforcement Agency, lies still on the scientists' operating table. Hurriedly, checking all the instruments Prof. Genius is speaking, though as yet, there is no one to listen..."I must hurry, I have'nt got much time. Now, I will know if my electronic wave machine really works - or if it was just a dream"...
A series of switches are flipped and the low-sounding drone of the machinery comes to life as a pair of sinister-looking orbs are automatically lowered, one over the lifeless body of Brady, and the other hovering over a another form; the dull glistening of its metal surface is beginning to reflect the ever increasing illumination coming from the table where Brady lies.
As an ionic cloud begins to glow around his head, streams of energy are coming from the orb, penetrating, seeking the minute traces of the complex paths of electrical energy that comprised the very mind of the one called, Brady. Harsh shadows are cast upon the walls of Genius' laboratory as the electronic wave machine generates flashes of blinding, blue-white light. The Professor, wearing special eye-protection from the blinding light looks on, intently, "All systems are A-OK". "Everything is working perfectly"! Then abruptly the activity over Brady ceases, a momentary silence - then erupts upon the metal-skinned form bathing it in a brilliant glow! "And now, for the final crucial step"...a switch is thrown and a final burst of energy to activate the robot's miniature atomic pile and energize the body...but will a new concsiousness needed to animate it be there? Will it?
Slowly...the metallic body begins to sit up, move to the table's edge and stand upright; ghostly halos of light-energy still racing along its sleek form and dissipating into the surrounding air, gleefully crackling in their brief lives, before they return to the ether. "Where am I"? "And who are you"?
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