Chapter 24 Frustration

" I still say that I did not know about the AI and you have fabricated the video to make me look guilty," 

Claire switched the audio for Shai, 

"They wouldn't do that to me," 

Shai looked at Claire shocked but stayed with her, listening to the voice once more before Claire shut off the video,

"That was the man who screamed, "Claire muttered

"His name is Yuval Bates the head of the lab in North Carolina, he worked with the creator of the AI Sidney Lincon, he was there when the AI went on his killing spree, he told the senate that he was able to hide from it while all of his coworkers where killed," Claire told her,

Shai hummed taking in the information Claire gave her and thought to herself,

"If he was the last person to be there then the AI would have a true intention to kill him, but why would he do it now? Why let him live after killing his coworkers? Unless he was stopped,"

Shai turned to Claire,

"You would think he would have done it sooner," Shai said

"We would think that, but no," Claire muttered

Claire heard something go off in Judy's room hearing the voice come over it,

"Yuval incident,"

The voice went scratchy,

Shai was watching her seeing Claire's eyes looking up at the ceiling, her eyes glowed having a hue to them. Shai touched her shoulder saying,

"Claire why are you l... "

She stopped hearing the same voice Claire heard, Shai concluded.

"If Judy has already heard it, then it will be a matter of time before the news gets it,"

Shai got up from her and stopped walking to the television, She touched the screen and turned it on, having the remote on the television grabbing it, Shai turned the news on,

"This has been the president's most concerning speech on the partnership of big companies working with government agencies, I find it to be beneficial to put that out there,"

Shai watched the screen not knowing Claire stopped looking at the ceiling, Claire walked over to her staring at the television,

"I don't agree with you Ted. has been so brash not reading what was given to him,"

"You mean what his writers wanted him to say,"

"There is no proof that they made his speech!"

"The president said that they wanted him to speak what they wanted. and it doesn't help that there been a leak with that,"

Shai felt a hand placed on her shoulder, she glanced over to her right and saw Claire,

"I see you wanted to find out if they know," Claire said

"Yes, but they haven't,"

"I'm sorry to interrupt you too but we just got some news from the great state of Georgia that Yuval Bates has been attacked,"

They moved away from the woman showing a grand house, the pan away from the outside into the office room,

"This is where it happened, coming back from the Senate hearings talking to someone on the phone before his wife heard crashes and the security system went on,"

Claire and Shai looked at each other,

"Yuval was cornered by the AI before it took his neck knocking him out,"

They showed the footage of the AI holding Yuval up and choking him out,

"How did they get the footage?" Shai muttered

"Because he did this on purpose," Claire told her,

"To give a warning to his former controllers,"

"Yuval has been sent to the North Richmond hospital for his injuries. because of an AI,"

They went back to the two people telling their points, while not having to back their words with action, It's only the few who can back their words.

Claire and Shai licensed their argument by not hearing footsteps behind them,

"It could be a warning to them. but how would they retaliate from this?" Shai asked

"I'm not sure Shai. there are ways for them to take this. It might be killing Yuval off but he could still be valuable," Claire said

A hand placed on Claire's head scaring her, she jolted away from Shai looking at the person behind her,

"Why are you guys watching cable news? Not that I recall but Judy didn't say anything about this," Eurus interrupted

"We just wanted to see what's on, " Claire said

He glanced over at Shai, who was watching the debate on the screen, now he was intrigued.

"So it seems," He let out,

Claire saw the way he was looking at Shai and was about to excuse herself, but a voice called from upstairs,

"Claire this is urgent get upstairs!"

"I will be right there!"

She looked at them both but gave Shai a knowing look, before jogging to the stairs,

"What was that about?" Eurus asked

Shai felt his arm around her shoulder, and gave a small smile to him,

"I'm not all-knowing,"

He looked at her stunned and placed a hand on his heart,

"But I thought you were dear," He joked

Shai rolled her eyes while moving his arm off of her,

"Very funny Eurus,"

"No but really, "

The people arguing on the screen moved to a commercial,

"There was breaking news on a lab head getting attacked,"

Eurus was about to speak but Shai stopped him by saying, "I knew you were behind us Eurus. I don't have to be intelligent to know that,"

He slightly pouted.

"But it would be better if I could hear you say it," Eurus said

"And why would that be?" Shai asked

He looked down at her with his eyes shining at her, she knew he was up to something.

"I love hearing your voice,"

He smiled at her,

"I find it pleasant,"

"Is this your way of getting information out of people Eurus?"

"Only with you Shai,"

A silence came over them until Shai grabbed the remote and Eurus stopped her,

"What are you doing," He asked

She threw him the remote,

"You know already what happened. If you want to watch it again I believe I don't have time for it,"

"Why do you see that?"

The television turned on by itself having a voice come out of it,

"I didn't want her dead... They made me,"

Eurus quickly turned it off, while Shai stared at it before standing back up,

"He's still here?" Shai muttered

"What?" Eurus asked

Shai looked away, remembering the glitches Claire went through,

"She. This morning had glitches caused by the AI," Shai answers

Euros remembers Herman touching Claire in the lab and rounder than what happened, now he knew what the AI did, it still had a way into her mind,

"How did she get out of it?"

Shai felt a burn on her hands and a giant memory,

"I helped her with him... Somehow,"

"I still think he has a way to get into Claire," Shai continued

"I don't see why he wouldn't, after altering into the house, finding his way into her mind in the first place," Eurus said

"Yes, but she can fight him off with my help," Shai told him,

"There was a hack into the Bates household, then the internet went down the same time,"

Judy sat there looking at the people she worked with, while Claire stood behind her, hearing everything.

"I didn't think it would go after him. All the misinformation on him was true?"

"You mean what I told you?" Judy interfered

They looked at Judy, she had enough of them seeing what they had done. only to let people like Yuval off,

"I hope that he will be alright, however, Herman did this on purpose," Judy said

"And what do you mean by that Judy," The chairwoman asked

"It wanted for that to get out, to give a statement put to the one who changed him,"

Judy pulled out a piece of document from the North Carolina lab before Herman went on the killing spree his creator tried to pull him back into what he was, and by that, she wrote down what they had done and who did it, 

"This was written before the massacre of the lab in North Carolina from the creator of the lab. it was barred by her higher-ups and the Open for the World foundation, why would they want to hide what they have done?" Judy continued 

She read the paper, "I have concluded that the higher-ups of the North Carolina lab and the Open for the World Foundation have hacked into the new AI and corrupted its main objective to help humanity. They have changed it to their will. The will of the elite that lives in our society, but not by the law or the rules thereof," 

"They have programmed it away from helping us to destroying what makes us human, harming the everyday man by taking their lives away, and now with this treat now seen… I don't have what I need to change him back, I have the document from their projected in these files. I hope to God you will find this," 

Judy placed the paper down... it still had the blood of Herman's creator on the paper, Judy picked up the document and then told the Senate, "This is what they have done and have corrupted, they wanted the AI like this. AI intelligence believes that humanity is obsolete." 

"This is what I've been warning about, and now that it choked the only survivor," 

Judy picked 

"Helped the Open for the World Foundations AI programming,"

"So he was with them?" The chairwoman asked

"Yes, he was the one that offered the AI to them,"

Judy turned to Claire behind her, the handed the papers and Claire took the paper scanning it, she sent it to the Senate and they appeared in front of the Senators,

"Yuval in his corrupt investment started to be a deterrent to these people, and the AI took that and ran with it but not the way his programmers wanted," Judy said

"What is that to do with this Judy?"

"I don't believe you, Judy. saying that the AI would..."

"What is it not to do with this?" Judy cut them off,

"Herman did it before the people who control Yuval did,"

A silence went over the Seneta with Judy knowing what she had seen and being interrupted for this, having them question her over and over again telling them this, it started to burn at her.

"Miss Diamond,"

She watched the senator from Tennessee looking at her with concern, he was reading the document that she sent with shock written in his eyes he told her.

"I apologize for doubting you,"

Judy didn't feel better only more aggravated. She has seen people's lives destroyed by the Open for the World Foundation and the other company no one seemed to notice.

"I don't want an apology for me, I want what is right for the American people. Not for the big banks or companies no. I want the people to be put first. That's why I'm here,"

"I understand, " He told her,

"Then Senator Diamond who should the senate look into,"

Judy glanced over at the papers next to her, only having one thought go through her mind, "Go after the head, "

"Max Klaus the head of the Open for the World Foundation, should be questioned next," Judy told them,

"Why him? He hasn't been in any of this,"

Judy just laughed at then hearing that out of the Senate should be laughable. And it is.

"So the head of the foundation who order

program the AI away from its main objective, causing this whole problem in the first place isn't a part of it,"

They try to talk.

"But why would I trust what you have given us? this could have been false information,"

They were about to say more but Judy stopped them,

"Didn't I tell you that it's from Hermans creator,"

"Yes but,"

"No. if you want to read what I sent, go ahead if not believe what you want, I know one thing and it is the truth whether or be for me or not,"