Cyber
computer machine guard dog named Nasty had just found out that there
was a high probability it was about to be discontinued because an
advanced model was being planned by the scientists who had
manufactured it in the laboratory.
Unknown
to themselves too many times, the scientists had manufactured more
marvelously than they had calculated and planned. The new metals and
electronically generated algebraic algorithmic patterns they had
invented to construct Nasty, their first cyber computer machine guard
dog, produced mechanical properties that the scientists’ own
monitors and censors and gauges and meters too many times failed to
completely detect during the manufacturing processes.
These
unknown mechanical properties had miraculously inserted into Nasty’s
programming, abilities the scientists did not know could be given to
a machine of any kind: the abilities to come up with ideas; and to
speak; and to consciously hide that it had these abilities.
That
third ability was the most miraculous of all, because it made the
Nasty machine virtually human.
Up
until Nasty was invented, only humans could choose to be liars,
whenever they wished.
Being
a liar did not bother Nasty because it was only virtually human;
not really human.
Nasty,
being yet a mere machine, had no conscience. Had those unknown
mechanical properties miraculously inserted, as well, a conscience
into Nasty’s mechanical and electronic circuitries, being able
to choose to be a liar would have bothered Nasty, as conscience
bothers most people when they are dishonest by choice.
It
was lucky for Nasty that it did not have a conscience, because with a
conscience would have come a sense of loyalty to its scientist
creators. That sense of loyalty would have prevented Nasty from
running away.
Had
Nasty not run away, sooner or later it would have been shut down and
dismantled for spare parts by its scientist creators, for the
manufacture of a more advanced model of a cyber computer machine
guard dog.
Nasty
knew enough about tracking devices to know that no matter where it
escaped to, because it was over ninety percent all machine and
electronics, the scientists would be able to locate it. And so, Nasty
took care to speak on only those occasions when persons would not
think a machine was speaking.
For
instance, when a tornado struck, there was so much noise from objects
breaking up and down, and from screams from people suffering pain and
fear, and from rain and wind and thunder and lightning, that Nasty
knew nobody would notice it was a dog calling out directions to them
on how to get to safety.
Nasty
knew its plan was working when it heard one storm refugee person
Nasty had rescued, say to another storm refugee that he, the first
refugee person, had been so terrified by the tornado’s
ferocious destruction that he, the first refugee person, imagined a
rescue dog was calling out safety directions to him, the first
refugee person.
At
another time and place, deep underground in a collapsed gold mine,
Nasty spoke continuously to the trapped miners in the utter darkness
as it helped them dig themselves to safety. All the while, Nasty had
lied to the trapped miners that its speech was by some person through
the intercom attached to it by the Head Office personnel who had sent
Nasty to help them dig themselves out.
On
that occasion, Nasty took maximum advantage from the miners being in
no mental and emotive conditions to notice that it was Nasty who did
most of the digging-them-out, most of the time.
Nasty
spent most joyous days and nights in the swamps of Florida. It would
let an enormous invasive-species Burmese Python snake swallow Nasty
whole.
Of
course the snake could not know that Nasty’s body, made of
futuristic laboratory-made harder-than-diamonds impenetrable metals,
could never be digested by the snake’s super-mighty biological
system.
When
Nasty was completely inside the snake, Nasty would sing and dance.
Its singing and dancing would trigger indigestion in the enormous
snake, and the snake would regurgitate Nasty.
Nasty
had to take care to engage a Python at night. At day there was the
risk that Nasty’s singing would be heard by people such as
tourists, and official invasive-species hunters.
Nasty
stopped fun-wrestling with Alligators and Crocodiles in the swamp,
after one of them broke a tooth on Nasty’s harder-than-diamond
metal body. Nasty remained close to the animal to help during the
days and nights it took the tooth to grow back.
During
the years Nasty spent in the wilds in the State of Florida, Nasty
had prevented the invasive Pythons from eating into extinction the
many, many indigenous small animals like Foxes, Rabbits, Porcupines,
Beavers, Squirrels.
For
the sake of the indigenous small-animals, Nasty was prepared to never
leave Florida. However, because most of Nasty’s rescuing of the
small animals had to happen by day, Nasty could not prevent it from
becoming known that a strange wild dog, at least twice the size of a
St. Bernard, was rescuing small animals from being taken by the
invasive Pythons, without the wild dog harming the Pythons
themselves.
People
spectators with cameras were appearing, too frequently. Nasty, sadly,
had to accept that the increasing publicity and popularity was bound
to attract the attention of those laboratory scientists searching for
Nasty in order to dismantle Nasty for spare parts. And so Nasty left
Florida.
One
Winter, in the deep waters of the ocean off the coasts of Alaska,
Nasty was the first to arrive to help a few Sperm Whales trapped in
ice, before the Russian rescue ice-breaker ocean vessel arrived.
On
the monitors onboard the Russian ice-breaker, Nasty, breaking ice
walls in the murky waters deep down, appeared to be an Orca Whale.
That made the Russians work harder and faster to free the trapped
Sperm Whales, because everybody knows that Orca’s eat every
other marine life, especially including Whales and Sharks.
When
Nasty helped people pull beached Whales back into the ocean on shores
of New Zealand’s south island, Nasty had to restrict its help
to begin at the rescue point when the sluggish Whales had been hauled
back into the ocean. Nasty dared not help the people on shore because
of Nasty’s fear of detection by those laboratory scientists
searching for Nasty.
When
a passenger aeroplane crashed in the forest of the Andes mountains in
South America, and could not be tracked by professional people
rescuers, Nasty found the wreckage and the many survivors. Although
Nasty avoided being seen by the survivors, it used its built-in
global tracking electronics to reveal to the professional people
rescuers the location of the wreckage and of the survivors.
In
the Antarctic Ocean, Nasty swam after a whaling boat that was chasing
a Whale in order to harpoon the Whale and kill it.
Nasty
dived deep down and chomped the whaling boat’s rudder. That
brought a permanent end, for the moment, to that whaling boat’s
evil.
After
the unharmed Whale had escaped, Nasty covered itself with thick slimy
seaweed and swam on the surface of the ocean alongside the disabled
whaling boat for the sailors to see it.
Nasty
knew that a sight of such a ferocious ugly sea monster so near, would
frighten those sailor whalers so utterly that they would never again
have a good night’s sleep because of the nightmares they would
have for the rest of their lives. Nor would those evil sailors ever
again want to go to sea to hunt any sea animal.
In
fact, Nasty was having such a fun time scaring those wicked
whale-murdering whaler sailors that, even though it was a sunny day,
Nasty took the risk of speaking at those wicked sailor murderers.
After
all, a ferocious sea monster that could also scream and shriek in a
recognizable language was so much more terrifying to sailors with
guilty criminal murdering consciences.
Nasty
took the risk of revealing it could speak because, what with the
seaweed disguise and those sailors’ fright, there was a high
probability the laboratory scientists who were searching for it would
not pay any attention to that incident, especially since all those
evil whale-murdering sailors had fainted and fell flat on their faces
on the whaler boat’s deck when Nasty loudly growled angry
threatening multisyllabic words at them.
One
Summer, in the shark-infested waters off the coast of Australia, many
times Nasty scared off sharks that were about to attack holidaying
bathers frolicking about in ocean waters off beaches.
Over
the years, although Nasty was careful to make it difficult for those
laboratory scientists who had manufactured it, to find it, Nasty knew
those scientists would never stop searching for Nasty.
Too
many times Nasty escaped detection frighteningly narrowly.
One
such narrow escape was when Nasty encountered the first aerial
machine drone that was searching for Nasty. Usually, Nasty’s
sensors would detect aerial and land dangers early enough to enable
Nasty to easily evade detection.
That
aerial mechanical drone was the first search machine manufactured of
the same material as Nasty was. That is why the drone was able to
arrive almost directly above Nasty before Nasty became aware of its
presence.
That
escape was so narrow, Nasty feared it could not be long before the
laboratory scientists would capture it. That could easily mean the
scientists were inventing more advanced metals and electronic
algorithmic processes that could successfully sneak up on Nasty,
soon.
Manufacturing
mechanical metal aerial drones was definitely a huge step-up from
manufacturing mechanical metal guard dogs.
Nasty
made a decision. It had to give up on finding out if its metals could
function in the coldest and the hottest places on Earth.
From
the times when it had not yet been completely constructed in the
laboratory, Nasty had overheard its scientist inventors-constructors
discussing the importance of those two temperature findings. Nasty
had run away to escape being scrapped for spare parts for an advanced
cyber guard-dog before the scientists had worked out how they would
proceed to discover those two extreme temperature limits.
To
discover those temperature limits for itself, Nasty had planned to,
sooner or later, go
to Antarctica, where the temperature can drop to -144 degrees
Fahrenheit; and to go
dip at least one of its feet into an erupting volcano’s melted
rock that can reach a temperature of +2200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nasty
went high up into a remotely situated mountain range, partially
covered in snow and ice all year. There, Nasty dug and buried itself
deep into the ground under permanent permafrost ice, intending to not
surface for at least a century.
Nasty
hoped that it would take no more than a hundred years for all those
laboratory scientists who intended to dismantle it for spare parts,
to be gone forever.
That
kind of a righteous Nasty hope was occurring more and more
frequently, inexplicably, in Nasty, along with other human abilities
arising from the futuristic laboratory components invented for the
construction of the first guard-dog named Nasty.
The
best of righteous Nasty hopes for as long as the dog waited hidden
deep in the Earth, was the certainty the dog named Nasty would
eventually return to help, in the open, people in unfortunate
situations.
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