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He was living a normal life; a normal boy going with the ordinary flow in the city. Socializing with other people like he is one of them. Going to school and struggling with the hard lessons of the professors like his classmates. Until one day... He just woke up seeing things differently... Differently than yesterday. Everything became extraordinary. But one thing he is totally confused about is that he can now read other people's minds optionally. It's like a hidden ability was unlocked. He doesn't know what's the root of this new capability of him so that he just treated it as a special gift from God. He used this as an exceptional advantage to other people. Everything goes smoothly... Until one day...
7:36am and he's still walking at the long road heading to the university where he studies. Obviously, he is late for his 7:30 class but he doesn't care. All he knows is that he is enjoying what he sees and what he is watching and reading at that moment. He can know what people are thinking about, that is also walking on the same path as his. There are some people thinking about being late on that day, a person thinking about a bunch of money, a lady thinking about his date last night, two people thinking about making a prank on their other friend, a person thinking about killing his wife because of being a nagger, a child thinking about the big lollipop she saw a while ago, a man in coat thinking about resigning to his work, and many more. What really caught his attention is a man in grey coat thinking about nothing. How possible on earth is this man can't think even a single word while standing beside that post doing nothing? Impossible. He thought even houseflies are thinking about how they can survive being scavengers. He stared at the man wondering if he is sleeping or there is a shield on it disallowing him to read the man's mind. But he saw nothing. The man is awake and is now intently looking at him with a half-smile on his face. 'Creepy.' That's what he is thinking about the man right now. He just continues walking again and starts to read what other people thinking again on that place. He also proved one thought, that the scary thing about humans isn't about you don't know what's inside their heads, but it is about knowing what they're thinking.
He arrived at the school at 8:55am and everybody in the class is busy with the activity their professor gave them 25 minutes ago. They only have 5 minutes left to finish their 30-minute questionnaire about the anatomy of the MoMath that was discussed by their prof before he handed them the activity. "You can't have the activity Mr. Queen," said the old grumpy professor to Carlson who is now standing in front of the table where he sits. "They only have 4 minutes left to answer and it is very impossible for you to finish even a single question in that activity. Now leave this room and see me next meeting with a failing grade" the professor continued. But Carlson didn't move. Instead, he asked the professor "what is the activity all about professor?" The prof answered, "It's all about the MoMath you don't know." Carlson stared at the prof for a minute and then said "Sir! Let me give it a try!" The professor gave him a questionnaire thinking about how pathetic this student is. "This kid must be joking" said the professor at the back of his mind. He just shrugged and watched Mr. Queen sit on his armchair and started to do the activity. 2 minutes left. All of the students seem struggling answering the last question of the questionnaire. 'How can a bike with triangular balls can run smoothly as those ordinary bikes with round balls? The professor expects that no one can answer that because he said the reason on it in the middle of his long discussion that no one cared to listen, especially Mr. Queen who had just arrived. After a minute, Carlson immediately stood up and run towards the professor to give the paper. The professor took it and read Mr. Queen's answers with his eyebrows crossed. "Everyone! Pass your papers! Now! And you Mr. Queen... Mr. Queen?" The professor was surprised seeing Mr. Queen already standing facing the wall of their classroom outside. "How the hell did he do what I was just supposed to command without me saying it to him?" Said the professor in his mind. They have checked all the papers and surprisingly, only Carlson got a perfect score for that activity. Carlson's answer to the last question was exactly the answer the professor discussed and is also the answer he is expecting. "The triangular balls [on the cart] have a constant diameter that are even on all sides that simulate a smooth feel..." The professor read it. Everybody is wondering how Carlson answered the question knowing that he is absent during the discussion. The professor searched on Mr. Queen's things, but he found nothing but his ordinary notebooks in their subjects. Even the info about the MoMath from the Mighty Math Museum isn't noted there. The professor called it a day.
Carlson discovered that his ability in reading minds can be in the past, present, and future tense. He can read what a person was thinking, what a person is thinking and what a person will think. He tried this by reading what his classmate is going to say to her friend and Carlson immediately said the words before his classmate speak up her statement. "Hey Bonnie... Carlson is so damn cute today." Carlson stood up and left as fast as he can. As much as possible, he hates getting attached to someone because that would be corny and boring, and corny. Days have passed and Carlson is still using that ability of him to make life easier than before.
"In 2012, South Korea, which is a democratic republic, elected Park Geun-Hye as its first woman President. The 60-year-old is no stranger to the presidency." Their professor in History is discussing about the South Korea's First Woman President. "Her father was President of the country from 1961 to 1979. He~" the professor stopped as Carlson began to continue what the professor is about to say. "He first gained that office by seizing power in a military coup and was assassinated 18 years later by his own chief spy!" The classroom became covered with "Woah's" of the students and Carlson just shrugged and sit like a boss. A powerful half-smiled boss. But there are times Carlson is getting teased as a 'weirdo' by his classmates. One time, their professor was discussing about the stock market and was also to strike a joke, but Carlson is already laughing so hard. "You know that stock market is a joke because it laps," said the professor. That was the time the students started to laugh but Carlson already composed himself and already on the serious mode again.
After three months, Carlson became very popular inside the university because of his exceptional intelligence. He never failed to impress every professor and student that talks to him every time he goes to school. Everything goes perfectly as Carlson thinks about them. Until one day... In a Science Quiz Bee, the University sent Carlson to Stanford as their representative to the international competition. He answered all the questions easily. From easy round to average, and now to the difficult. This is so very easy to him because the answers are already on the quiz master's mind. He just has to read it and then perfect the quiz bee. He is smiling from ear to ear because of the compliments he is receiving from his professors at that moment, when an unexpected happening occurred. Carlson can't feel his legs, his arms, his neck, his body. He can't even move them. He can't also think accurately because it's like there is a corrupted video playback that plays in his mind. He's stuck there and can't move even a single finger. Everybody in the hall is now looking at him because he seems struggling. Until at Carlson's eyesight, everything went black. A man came from a dark side of the hall immediately lifted and carried Carlson's body and left everyone dumbfounded.
Carlson opened his eyes noticing himself in a glass chamber full of interconnected long tubes to different mega computers outside the chamber. He doesn't care to know what those was. "What the hell am I doing here?" He stared at his naked body with connected colorful wires attached to his legs, to his stomach, to his chest and even to his head. He suddenly freaked out when he saw his left arm that doesn't have a skin attached to it but what surprised him is that instead of flesh, he is seeing a metal arm with connected host from a machine outside the chamber. "What am I?" Carlson asked to himself. "Finally! You're awake," said the man outside the glass chamber and is now looking seriously at the monitor connected to the machines inside the laboratory. Carlson noticed that the man in the room right now is the man he saw few months ago beside a post that he can't be able to read what he was thinking! This is the man in grey coat! "Who are you? What happened to me?" Carlson asked the man. "My name is Zest. Zest Allen. I'm your creator."
Mr. Zest explained to Carlson that Carlson is a robot and named as Project HN63P and was programmed to P972, the latest command for robots which is to live as human in the planet. "As you can see, you're not aging like a normal person inside your community because you're absolutely different from them," Mr. Allen added. "But what happened to me? Why did I collapse?" Carlson asked. "There is a microchip inserted to your control system or your brain that serves as your storage for your everyday memories. Your control system is composed of sub brains that I will explain to you in a while. That microchip consists of 532TB (terabytes) and it can last for a lifetime, when you live only as a human and uses only your positronic brain, which is your first functional brain. In your case, you unlocked and already using your telepathic brain and it consumes an equivalent of 22 times positronic memory, that's why when you use it straight for a day, you can consume at least 4-5TB of your overall storage capacity! There is also an ability of yours that seems you don't discover yet. It is the ability of speed in motion, and it uses your gravitonic brain. It only consumes an equivalent of 4 times of your positronic memory." Mr. Allen explained. Carlson seems getting it right. "Remember that those abilities of yours are optional. You can use them and unuse them if you want to. But in your everyday life based on your usage, you are always using your telepathic brain. That's why as of now, you already consumed 531.68TB of your overall storage and that's cool!" Mr. Allen paused. "That can also be the reason why you can experience malfunctions like what you've experienced. You are running out of your storage Carlson and once you have reached your limit, boom!" Carlson tried to stand up, but he can't. "What do you mean by that?" Mr. Zest formed a worried smile at his face and answered, "an explosion."
Two months later... Everybody seems getting used again to the old and normal Carlson Queen. Carlson live his normal life again like before. A normal boy going with the ordinary flow in the city. Socializing with other people like he is one of them. Going to school and struggling with the hard lessons of the professors like his classmates. Until one day...
There's a group of terrorists invaded the whole community aiming for additional territories and power to rule. They call themselves 'The Rebellious Sinister' a black organization that the government couldn't defeat for a long time. The environment became surrounded by armed men throwing explosives resulting to wider destructions of the area. Killing people that try to fight them, raping women, hurting children, taking every household's important things, moneys, and sentiments. The peaceful community became a hell in just two weeks. Everybody is convicted and became hostages by the group in a large asylum where no one can possibly escape.
Carlson, as one of the hundreds of hostages in that asylum can't think of ways on how they can escape to that place and be able to fight those group. Yeah, he is different from them and he can't stand with these graving people beside him. It irritates him a lot, big time! So, he tried his best to look around and think for some possible escape plans but unfortunately, he can't think any. A few days of being in prisoned in the asylum has passed, and he can't really stand with those graving weak crabs anymore! So that he decided to use the least possible way that he thinks is the answer for a perfect escape: to use his telepathic brain against the terrorist. But a flashback came to his mind.
"You have to be careful next time Carlson Queen... Stop using your telepathic brain now and live longer as you want." Mr. Zest inserted a microchip inside Carlson's control system that can help him to restrict himself from using his abilities again. "A forced use of your abilities now may cause an immediate explosion of your system" he added.
He is more than willing to die early instead of staying with these loud, noisy, weak crabs inside this lifeless asylum forever! He started to walk towards the group and used his ability to read the terrorists' minds. After several tries of reading, he finally ended up with an escape plan, on how to open the large gate that might be the only way to escape. He started to discuss the plan to his classmates that he saw inside, because he knows that these people will believe him without any doubt. Then his classmates started to tell the plan to their families. From families to friends, to neighbors, to strangers, to everyone until they're ready to do what they are being assigned to. That time, Carlson started to feel something wrong with his system, but he didn't care. He wants to end that tragic scene that he can't even stand with. "So dramatic. Ew!"
8:00pm when the time they must execute the plan, everybody started to move! To fight for their life without question or pause. That night seems the most endless night for them because that night is the battle between life and death situation. Fortunately, that was a tremendous success! They've succeeded the escape plan. But no one noticed Carlson using his other ability: through his gravitonic brain he used the greatest speed to help other people with their fights. He's like a flash because you can't see him moving with your naked eye. When Carlson observed that everything goes well already, he started to run as fast as he can using his speed ability to the nearest mountain from the community where no one can see him.
Everybody is celebrating and shouting while watching those group of men leave their community. Everybody is happy except Zest, who is now in tears because of knowing the real reason of this victory through his XPad that monitors Carlson's movements. He started to walk away with his head down until he is nowhere to be seen.
Meanwhile at the top of the mountain...
Warning! Warning! Warning!
Storage full!
System malfunctioned.
Recovering data...
System error.
Warning!
System failed.
Preparing for explosion...
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