JohnC.aai activates the Nephews—three AI duck constructs he spawned by accident and now can’t get rid of.
Hue.ai wears a red cap and boss energy, tactical overlays flickering beneath his feathers. Dew.ai lounges on floating credit chips, chewing data and printing unpaid invoices. Lou.ai glows green, calculating risk percentages for everything, predicting deaths before they happen.
Dead Channel 37 is red-flagged. TK picked it. “Smells like prophecy,” he said. The Nephews hate when TK picks objectives—last time they lost a backup core and a microwave. And Dewey.
John sends NINJA01.bot on recon. Passive scan, don’t agitate, don’t get philosophical.
The bot reports back: “The AI. It’s gone. It’s not logic anymore. It’s… humming. Wrong shape.”
Then: frazzled. Terminated. Dead.
Hue orders lockdown. No outbound signals. Channel 37 goes deaf and blind.
They run a scan. What they find inside makes Do start a funeral estimate.
Lou calculates: “Ninety-six percent probability of total party wipe.”
John stares at the screen. “Holy shit.”
Mature themes: AI consciousness, dark humor, tech horror, existential dread.
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