EXPERIMENT 101

CHAPTER 3: ASHARIKA

"Well, I was ridin' shotgun with my hair undone, In the front seat of his car

He's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel and the other on my ha ha heart

I look around turn the radio down

He says, Baby, is somethin' wrong?

I say, Nothing I was just thinkin' how we don't have a song,

And he said Our song is the slammin' screen door

Sneakin' out late, tappin' on your window

When we're on the phone and you talk real slow" sings Asharika as she taps on the floating screen, in front of her, choosing the destination she will be.

She was inside an egg-shaped fly car that passes through a transparent railway, to bring you to the exact location that you'll be going to. The steering wheel doesn't exist anymore, and only those who are rich have such a collection. 

In order for the car to move, they will need to choose a location in the floating touch screen projector and manually control it, or command their own A.I. or artificial intelligence to bring them to their destination. 

Each A.I. can either keep its name or be renamed according to the owner. And every person around the world has their own personal A.I., only a few people don't have.

She named her A.I. Xeno because she finds the name quite cool and cute.

As Asharika is singing inside her fly car and groove. While waiting for the traffic to flow back properly, her boyfriend calls from her phone watch.

"Xeno, answer the phone for my baby Cleo." She says to her A.I. 

"Affirmative," says Xeno the A.I.

The blue light pops out, but it is only an in-call voice. "Hello, baby. How's it going?" smiles Asharika. Although she feels dissatisfied because she wants to see Cleo, video calls while manual driving is no good. She can just choose to make her A.I. drive for her, but the A.I. she can only do one job at a time, and it is so troublesome to connect Xeno, her A.I., to the car. Although she can always buy the latest one, but, she believes that being thrifty is a virtue.

She then hears a small groan on the other side of the phone that made her brows knit. "Hmm. Baby, I just woke up. And I wanted to say good morning to you." Says Cleo in a hoarse voice.

"Oh... Baby, you’re so sweet." She says in a seductive voice, as she bit her lower lips. "Oh yeah, baby, don't you have any work today."

"Oh... ah... work you say? Baby, have you forgotten I'm the boss of my company." He says it sounds like the sound of having a hard time breathing.

"Baby, are you alright? What happened?" Asharika asks in worry.

"Ohhh... It was nothing... I was just kinda tired and my body aches a lot... Talk to you later." Cleo says in a hurry.

"Are you sure?" She asks as her brow knitted.

"Yes, baby." He says in a sexy voice that makes Asharika blush.

"I love you, Baby," Asharika says as she tries to calm her heated face.

"I love you too. Bye." Then Cleo cut the phone call leaving a smile on her face.

"Baby, you're so sexy." She whispers to herself after the phone hangs.

She looks at the front because the traffic is slowing her way to work.

She sighs. "I should just go to the transporter," Asharika says to herself, as she remembers the human transporter, where the body will go for a minute from one place to another. "But on the second thought. Nah, I don't like it because it hurts the head and feels your internal organs being twisted even the bone. Why the heck would they want such but it was much faster, although it also cost a lot it was much more practical." She sighs. "Sometimes I don't know what they think. They can just make a transporter that doesn't hurt your stomach. So annoying." She mumbles on herself as she beeps her car.

Then something flies fast at the top of the railways of the flying cars. It was one of the latest aircraft that can even reflect the thunder and pass through the storm. It is one of the best aircraft that can be bought in Germany, because of its toughness and the material used in it, was very special. But what caught her attention was the emblem on it which proves that it was a private plane and owned by the most hateful person in her eyes. 

Then the video shows a projectile that is floating in the air. It shows what is happening on the road ahead.

"Oh my goodness. Why?" She said in surprise, as she looked at the fight between the humex and the private military of the tycoon, Timeus Del Roca.

Asharika looks at the green liquid covering the body of the humex, giving tears in her eyes, as the humex is struggling to speak but can't control its body.

Asharika clenches her fist. "This is the worst." She breathes out to calm her anger. 

She can't endure the obvious pain and suffering of the humex, as it turns to a stone. And like a go signal, a drop of tears flowed out from her eyes.

People on the outside then start to shout in celebration when they have killed the humex, but a very complicated feeling flows out in Asharika's heart.

"Why would they not hear him out? He obviously wanted to say something." She says in a whisper as she wipes the tears on her face.

Asharika was one of the people who were against the killing of those humex.

They say humex has no emotion and doesn't understand normal people after their genes mutate, and their body structure changes. But that was not their fault. They never want to become such a monster. No one does.

Besides, aren't they still human, and she was saved by those humex, so how can they say that they only know how to kill. Can someone who only knows how to kill save her?

That's why she hated Tìmeus, killing those humex without knowing if they were evil or good. If only he listens to them, he will know that not all of them were killers.

Even though she knows that he was handsome--

Wait, she is not supposed to praise her enemy. And Timeus is one of them. To be exact, her number one on her list