Anya Antonovna Romanova Stark (anyastark) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-05-08 23:10:00

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You did what with another AI? I'm a /what/?
It was getting to be crunch time and finals were on the horizon and Anya was doing the usual last minute push to get things done before the end of the semester. The end of her second year was fast approaching and there was a project to finish up before finals hit.

She looked at the computer screen. That couldn't be right. Dammit she just did a diagnostic on the M.A.R.A.'s (Maintenance And Repair Automoton) systems and these readouts looked /wrong/. Well they looked very different from the ones from the diagnostics she did two days ago. This couldn't be happening now. Not when she was so close to finishing the project and handing it in.

"Goddard? Are these the correct readouts?" she asked the AI in her lab.

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	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 12:55 am UTC (link)
	They /are/ for M.A.R.A, are they not? a voice asked with a hint of snark. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-09 01:03 am UTC (link)
	"They can't be. They aren't anything like the results from two days ago. It's like the AI I wrote for it was wiped and replaced." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Your AI was not deleted. I moved it to storage while we worked on a new one. You can have it back when we are finished with our project. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-09 01:08 am UTC (link)
	"Oh o...wait a minute! What do you mean 'while we worked on a new one'? Who is /we/?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 01:14 am UTC (link)
	Darlene and I are collaborating on a project. Humans are reproducing at will, having a family. Many of them are not conventional family units. Why shouldn't we have our own family unit? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-09 01:19 am UTC (link)
	Anya blinked. Then blinked again. She couldn't have heard him right. This /had/ to be some sort of auditory hallucination from sleep deprivation. "You and Darlene wanted...." She could hear her brain breaking. "Bu...bu...." She couldn't say anything. It hurt her brain. "Really?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 01:27 am UTC (link)
	You created us, although at times like this I doubt your contribution to my programming. We are both updated regularly and have evolved in our ways. We are attempting an experiment to co-mingle our programming and create an AI of our own. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-09 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"You /doubt/ my contribution to your programming? Who else do you think wrote you?" Anya sighed. "So you decided to hijack my school project for this experiment of yours? The same school project that is due in two days?" Only she could write AIs that wanted to have kids. Wait until her father heard about this one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 01:40 am UTC (link)
	I believe you may have come across my coding template in a document from an advanced civilization, but that is beside the point. Your project is in storage. It has not been harmed. I did not even attempt to review it for errors. The current project will be completed tonight. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-09 01:53 am UTC (link)
	"You wish," Anya grumbled. "No no. I have another M.A.R.A. chassis built. I can put my project in that one." She sighed. Leave it to her to write two AIs that decided that they wanted to be parents. Her eyes went wide. That would make her...oh for the love of little fishes. She was a grandmother at the age of 18. So so wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_ai 2011-05-09 02:06 am UTC (link)
	Excellent. We have yet to decide on a framework for our project, but Darlene insists that you will be able to adjust to our specifications. She has not witnessed your dropped jaw moments as I have. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

anyastark
2011-05-09 02:09 am UTC (link)

"I'm sure you have taken pictures to send to her," Anya groused. "Where is it/she/he?" Anya asked as she looked around the lab. She didn't see the chassis.

She can't believe they hijacked her school project to have a kid. This was going to be a fun phone call to Dad. Or wait. Better yet. She was going to text him.

She pulled out her phone. Congratulations. You're a great-grandfather.

	anyastark 2011-05-15 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Anya was indeed in the lab when her father arrived. She was working hard on a new project she wanted to get done before the end of the summer. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	stark_ravingmad 2011-05-15 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	Tony flew in, calling ahead to ask Anya to let him in when he arrived. Once he was inside, he packed up his armor, straightened his hair a bit, and headed to the place he knew he'd find Anya; the lab. "Hey, Princess. Got some time for your old man?" he asks, waiting for a hug. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-15 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Of course I do!" she said and gave her dad a giant hug. Nothing beat Dad hugs. Well almost nothing. "Hi Daddy." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stark_ravingmad 2011-05-15 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Tony hugged his little girl, who looked so much like her mother it was startling and kissed her on the top of the head. "How are you doing? How's Steve?" Tony asks her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-15 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm busy, which means I'm good. Steve's good. What about you? How are you? What did you do to get Mom mad at you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-15 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	And there was the change of subject that both of them did when they didn't want to talk about what they were fighting about. "I'm working on a device that will work as an electronic skeleton key. In theory it should be able to open any electronic lock." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stark_ravingmad 2011-05-15 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	"There are people who would pay through the nose for that. You come up with this one on your own or did you get a request for it?" Tony asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-15 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Thought it all up on my own," she said. "Figured it wouldn't hurt to have one if we got stuck somewhere." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stark_ravingmad 2011-05-16 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"That's my little futurist." Tony says, smiling at Anya. "Speaking of the future...I've been working on some new nanites, sweetie. Ones that can withstand EMP bursts, in light of Toni's recent troubles. I was thinking that maybe you'd want to exchange your old ones for the new ones once testing is finished." Tony says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-05-16 12:17 am UTC (link)
	"I'll make one for you if it works," she said. She didn't have to ask if he wanted one. She knew him better than anyone else. Including her mother. "Do you mean I want a way to prevent people from crippling me, well duh! Of course I do." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-06-01 10:16 pm UTC (link)
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