'I really can't believe that is how I died, feels just too random'
Zane thought as his consciousness floated in the void. If he had any perception of time, he would know that he had died about 300 years ago. Through all those years, only one thought circulated his mind
'Why did I die like that?'
Three Hundred years earlier.
Zane awoke one beautiful morning with the sun coming through the large windows of his penthouse.
"Good morning sir" Said a disembodied voice which seemed to come from the walls. This was the house AI.
"Morning Alexis, what does my day look like ?" Zane greeted while stretching his arms.
"Your first appointment is with Mr Lane to discuss the terms of his new contract, and then after lunch we have the demonstration of the new self driving car." answered the AI.
"Huh seems I have a virtually free day today" Zane murmured before asking "Where is my wife ?"
"In the pool" The AI immediately replied.
Zane furrowed his brows at that statement. "Alexis execute command 6529 Reboot"
"Affirmative, command 6529 executed reboot in progress....." the AI announced, and not even 10 seconds later it spoke once more.
"Command 6529 completed. Reboot successful"
"Good morning sir"
"Alexis where is my wife ?" Zane asked once more as he seemed to be expecting a specific answer.
"In the pool" was the answer that came. Zane pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. It's been 5 years since he developed Alexis and it was still not perfect.
"Alexis run a full system diagnosis on yourself."
"Affirmative, system diagnosis commenced"
"All functions will be momentarily unavailable during the diagnosis"
Zane took a quick shower before walking to his wardrobe to pick up something to wear. He then left his room.
'I really hope it's just a harmless bug. I would hate to go over all that source code' he thought to himself.
Even if Zane wouldn't have a busy day today, checking over fifty trillion lines of code was not easy, even for the best programmer in history.
Zane walked down the hall before entering the elevator.
"Roof" he said.
"...."
'Oh yeah' Zane had forgotten that Alexis was offline for the time being. After touching a button on the wall, the elevator rose until it reached the upper limit of the penthouse.
"Hey how was your night" asked a woman Zane found in the rooftop pool. This woman was Linda, his wife.
"Slept like a log, yours ?" he replied as he sat on one of the pool chairs close by.
"I was fine, but it would have been better if you had come home earlier yesterday" she got out of the pool and covered herself with a towel before going to give her husband a peck on the cheek and sitting on the chair next to him.
"Sorry hun but I had to check if everything was ready for the presentation today. Wouldn't want one of our cars to kill someone because of a small error in the code now would we" he said with a smile.
"Speaking of, is there something wrong with Alexis ?. I asked her the time just a moment ago and received no answer" Linda inquired.
"I ordered her to perform a full system diagnosis. She should be back online any second now" Zane answered.
"Full system diagnosis ? what happened? " questioned Linda.
"I asked where you were and she said 'in the pool' " Zane created quotes in the air with his fingers.
Linda expressed her confusion "I don't understand. I WAS in the pool"
"Yes but we have 5 swimming pools in the house."
Linda seemed to understand her husband's point "Ohh so she was supposed to specify which pool i was in."
"Exactly." Zane exclaimed.
His wife wanted to complain about his perfectionism but before she could, Alexis' voice was heard.
"Diagnosis complete. Irregularity found 75_200*119-7"
Zane suddenly clapped his hand once, a hologram of a keyboard and screen appeared floating in front of him. Not wasting any time he began furiously typing while words and numbers appeared and disappeared on the screen.
Linda has been married to Zane for 20 years and has seen him work countless times, however his speed and mastery over a keyboard still amazed her.
"Done!" he announced after exactly 20 seconds before asking, "Alexis, where is Butch?"
"He is sleeping on hallway 2C sir " Alexis answered and Zane revealed a small smile.
"Where is my wife ?"
"She is on the rooftop pool sir. Right next to you" Alexis said.
"Well you fixed her !" Linda smiled.
"Sir if you do not leave now you will be late for your meeting with Mr Lane" Alexis announced.
"I gotta go , see you at the demonstration party" Zane kissed Linda on the forehead before leaving.
Zane went into his room and wore his suit, which Alexis had already picked out for him. It was white with a gold trim around the edges, and black shoes.
He then went down the stairs to the kitchen, where he took an apple from the fridge which he proceeded to eat as he walked to the door which connected to the garage, briefcase in hand.
"Which one ?" Zane thought out loud as he faced his garage, filled with all 23 of his cars.
"May I suggest the Chevrolet Camaro SS sir" Alexis said.
"Yes you may" Zane walked towards his favorite Chevy. It was gold in color. Zane wanted to coat the whole car with real gold but apparently that would affect its speed because of the weight.
After placing his hand on the steering wheel, the car's engine roared to life and Zane drove out of the garage. His house was on a floating island 10 miles off shore. So he first had to drive over the 10 mile long bridge to get to the city.
Zane drove at 80 miles an hour over the bridge and crossed it in no time. After reducing his speed he slowly drove through the city towards his company building.
That's when a semi truck came out of nowhere and reduced his beautiful Chevrolet Camaro into scrap metal.
Back to the present time.
'I was only 45 years old how could that have happened ?' his consciousness thought.
'I really hope they found the asshole who was driving whatever hit me'
'My life was perfect why did i die '
'I shouldn't have died'
'Why did i die like that?'
'I shouldn't have died'
Like this 200 more years passed until one day...
"Would you please shut the fuck up !!" for the first time in....he didn't know how long. Zane heard someone else inside the void.