Mike was pleased with the results of their fight, but the ease of how they killed their clones was disturbing.
-"Boys, I have a question for you."- GOD appeared before them with hands behind his back. -"Why did you killed that clones?"
They just stood before GOD in silence, they did not know what to say. They realized it just now that killing people seemed to them as easy as eating.-"Listen, I want you to think it over tonight. Tomorrow I will ask you why killing was so easy for you. "-They just bowed their heads and walked towards living quarters.
When they left the hall GOD turned to Mike-"Tell me, what do you think will happen to them now?"
-"I think they will be fine, current culture on Earth makes people blive that life is meaningless and their worth depends on how much elements are worth on the stock market."-Mike said that with confidence.
-"Would you believe that this is an effect of that stupid cultist and heretics."-GOD sighed and started to disappear.
-"No fucking way Dad, if I remember middle ages weren`t much different in that aspect from the present.
-"People were wild and violent but they still valued life more than today. You know what one human said. Death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of a few million is just a statistic."
-"That`s fucked up."-Mike sat on a chair and started to think.
-"Human life always has a meaning and it`s value if they realize it now it will be much easier for them later on with much bigger kill count."-Mike had tons of questions, he was a general, not a teacher.-"I will tell you tomorrow, you will listen together with them. Bye"- GOD disappeared in a flash leaving Mike with his thoughts.
Alex and Zibi were sitting on a couch in a living room drinking tea in silence. They were thinking about what happened.
-" Zibi I know what I felt and why I killed."- Alex stood up and took can of the bear from a fridge.-"I was scared that that clone may be sentient and might want to kill me and take my place. For me he was dangerous, he was my enemy. For me, it was killed or be killed."-Alex finished his bear in one gulp and left to his room.
-"I will stay here and think about this see you tomorrow"-Zibi looked at the floor.
Zibi was sitting on that couch for a few hours. Inside that fight he really did not think it over, he treated it more like a game or dream, not a real experience. He started to remember that his clone had plenty of occasions to give up, but it didn`t. He remembered how excited he was, how happy he was when he won. He remembered the face of his clone when he was choking him. Its face was grim. After all these hours, he could not find the answer, he did not know why he was able to fight and kill. Alex was raised on three morals: GOD, Honor, Fatherland. He too was, but he never thought over it too much he was always rational and logical. He always thought things over while Alex worked on instinct, but Alex did everything he could for the good of Fatherland, in the name of GOD and according to his sense of honor.
-"Do I have that thing?"- Zibi started to walk in circles. -"I need help. I am too tired"-He massaged his temples and fell asleep on the couch.
At the morning Zibi woke up to the very particular smell. It smelled like very old and dirty clothes that were washed in water, then that water was made into a tea. He opened his eyes and saw Alex drinking tea and eating butter bread with doctor`s sausage.
-"This green tea is perfect, such intense aroma. Mhhmmm, delicious."-He said with a smack.
-"I will never understand why do you love green tea. Make me a sandwich"- Zibi slowly woke up.
-"Go do it yourself. I am going to the hall to check what I can do with this body"- Zibi stood up, as usual, he had very low blood pressure. He just couldn`t wake in the morning.
-"Hey, Zibi what`s up?"-GOD appeared right behind him and scared him.
Zibi jumped almost two meters high.
-"Man, you scared me."- He grabbed his chest. His heart was beating like an engine
-"It is bad to be scared of a GOD, are you a sinner."- Ball of Light turned into a Morgan Freeman and GOD poured coffee for both of them.-"Here, drink, it will wake you up."-Zibi took a cup and drunk it.-" I know you have a question for me, would you like me to answer it or would like to ask first?"-GOD sat in an armchair.
-"Why Alex can find that answer, and I am not?"-Zibi stood before GOD.
-"Your friend has more secrets than you think."- GOD said that with a solemn face. While Zibi started to overthink things.-"Do not worry, he is not a member of a secret organization that kills people. It is just he did not tell you that he takes history in a very personal way. You see if I had to compare him to one thing then it would be a Knight. He has very strong faith in me, his 3 morals are his support in life, but he also has a very strong instinct, just like an animal. This type of people in time of peace will be very good to others, but in times of war they are the most dangerous predators because their survival instinct turns off everything except their will to survive."- GOD`s eyes were piercing Zibi`s soul.
-"Hehe, you know, he always wanted to be a knight. Tell me, is he really able to kill a person is really that much of a beast?"
-"Yes, and no. You have to ask him by yourself, by the way, you know him better, I should ask you about that."-GOD slowly sipped his coffe.-"Listen, every person is different, their minds work in a different way. You are rational, Alex does things by instinct. Do not compare yourself to him. Remember killing is always bad, but people were killing each other from the begging, but it was always about survival. He will kill me, I have to defend myself. During his fight, Alex awakened his survival instinct, and we saw the results. But you are more sophisticated. Do you understand it now?"
-"I think yes. First, Alex really is a like Knight, Deus Vult, and charge that is his conscious, but in his subconscious, he is like that beast in a wild."- Zibi said with energy.-"But I am different, I have to know all if and whys."
-"You know your friend very well. Time to know yourself."- GOD gave him a mirror and started to fade.
-"Wait? Tell me who you would compare me?"- Zibi grabbed GOD before he could completely disappear.
-"You want to uncover all truths. That was the task of the first Inquisitors before they started to purge people."-GOD was smiling and slowly walked away.-" Got to the hall, Mike will be mad if you are late."
Zibi, run towards the hall. He just barely made it on time. Mike appeared there at the same time as Zibi. Alex saw nothing because he was to busy flexing his muscles and shouting in amazement.
-"Oh yeah, baby! My muscles have muscles!"- Alex was flexing his abs and groaning. Earlier Zibi couldn`t see his friend in the whole picture but now he judged that Alex turned from a bear into supper athlete with extremely low body fat, he almost looked like a manga character. Alex turned around and saw Zibi and Mike.
-"Yo! What's up?"-He looked at Zibi-"You still look like Slander... . He could not finish because Mike kicked him in the ass.
-"Attention!"- The Duo stood straight like poles. -" First 100 km run. Begin!"- Mike fired with a gun at their feet. Hall changed into a road with all kinds of obstacles. They were running as fast as they could because if any of the two slowed down they were shot by Mike. Alex was the first one to get shot in the ass, he wasn`t bleeding but he felt like someone has touched him with a glowing red iron rod. Zibi could swear that for the first km after shoot Alex`s time was better than a world record.
Zibi was shoot when he tripped on a Balance Beam. He jumped forward like a horse cursing at Mike but that earned him another shot.
The whole marathon took them no more than 8 hours of the constant sprint, but Mike wasn't pleased with that result. -"6 hours! Are you snails or what? I will make you run this in less than a minute."- Zibi and Alex could only stand still and listen when their drill sergeant was calling them maggots and piles of shit. After 5 minutes of constant abuse, Mike finally took a breath of air.-"To the gym, now! Or do you want a kick for better acceleration?"- Mike pointed at the big doors with a word GYM on them. Alex and Zibi started to run towards it but Mike stopped them again.-"STOP! Frog jumps."- The could only squat and started to jump like frogs.
Their training in the GYM was something that Zibi hated with all his heart, physical training. Alex did not mind it because he never had a need to attend to such a place, he preferred to carry bags with coal, rocks or his favorite log. Zibi being more fragile usually just rode a bike or climbed mountains. Zibi loved mountains he could spend in them all his free time.
After another round of torture in the GYM, the duo was left alone in the sports hall that the GYM changed into.
-"This hall can change into any place you just need to imagine it. Size, terrain, things inside it doesn't matter, just imagine and it's done. And what is important, time here is regulated by the will of the administrator. Hehe. When you finish my whole training I will give you moderator rights."-Mike smiled-"With this pace, it will take you roughly a 100 more years."-Mike disappeared with a laugh.
-"I hate that guy"- They started to talk in unison.
-"Yeah, me too."- They responded to each other.
They just lied on the floor for some time until GOD apeared.-"Hello, time for breakfast what d you think about scrambled eggs with meat?"- The Duo looked at him with confusion, it should be dinner or supper.-"Oh, I forgot to tell you, time flow differently here. Even if you felt like the whole day passed in reality it was only 2 hours."- He handed them a plate with more meat than eggs for them it was even better. When they ate and drunk morning coffee Mike appeared once more.
-"You ready for more?! Oh, hey Dad, what are you doing here?"- Mike was smoking a cigar. It peaked Alex interest.
-"Sir, could you give me a cigarette, let me smoke and I am ready to go."-Mike looked at him and handed him a single cigarette and a lighter. Alex took a deep breath and released a big cloud of smoke.-" Extra Strong, my favorite."- He finished it and stood up full of energy.-"ALrigh, Zibi stand up we do not have time to waste."-He was full of power.
-"Not so fast."-GOD clapped his hands togehter.-"I have a job for you."-They looked at him with anticipation-"You have to go and steal a Pen Drive, it looks like this."- GOD created a holographic image, Zibi became pale.-"The program inside that disk can be very dangerous, you have to retrieve it. Right Zibi?"-Zibi looked somewhere else.-"That is your pen drive right? Do not lie."-GOD put that hologram right before Zibi`s nose.
-"Yes, it is mine."
-"You know the rest. Your parents and neighbors should be already at work. You have 8 hours."-GOD disappeared in a flash.
Mike nodded his head.- "I will teach you proper CQC tomorrow. Let's go, you need your equipment and a car. You have a driving license right?"-Both of them nodded.-"Good."
When they were walking towards storage rooms Alex asked his friend-"So what is inside that thing? 1TB of porn, anime, pirated games?"-He was more annoying with each passing second so Zibi had no other choice but to say it.
-"Do you remember that one time when you beat me in Starcraft?"-Alex nodded-"I wasn`t the one you played against. It was my bot that I created because you were annoying me with your constant bragging about beating me in that game."
-"Say what? And what about your bragging when we played Counter Strike!"- Alex increased the volume of his voice.
-"Not important right now. I created that bot as an experiment. When I finally finished it I called him Marshal and let him assist me when I played against you, it was gradually learning your patterns and tactics. I was making it better and stronger, by the time it could analyze recorded games of other players. Then I thought about what would happen if I ordered it to imitate a person. You know what that means?"-Zibi had grave look on his face.
-"Until it does not have consciousness I think we have nothing to worry about."-Alex had no idea what was going on, but Zibi was in his own world talking about his creation.
-" Just to be save, I was working on it on the old laptop that was disconnected from the internet then I sealed it in that pen drive because it could overcome all security programs, I just showed it once and it learned. It can not only brake, or bypass them it can control them to its own advantage. That was something neither you are me teach it."
-"Boring, when we go back, let go and eat in Burning Burger."- Alex started to think about his stomach, again-"I need to buy a pack of cigs."
-"ALEX! Listen to me you dumb fuck, I think that I created a prototype of Skynet. Do you understand now?"-Zibi was going mad.
-"It depends on who you ordered him to imitate. If by some chance you ordered him to imitate Marshal, then these that should be worried are Russians and Germans."- Alex started to droll.
-"Then what if they get their hands on it, what if they order it to learn from or Stalin or Hitler or worse from bloody Felix?"-At these words, Alex's became serious.
-"Never!"-He started to walk faster, he was almost running.