Adam #3

It was at that point that Adam realized he was not really a human or a robot. He was a human mind stuck in a robot body at the bottom of the ocean more than one hundred years after he was born in Colorado Springs in the year 1996. The note explained everything even though he already knew must of it. Not only was he this odd mix of dead body, human mind, and robot parts, but he was a redundant copy. It was odd to think that, at least in his mind's memory, it was only a few days ago that he went into that doctor's office and got the scan. The note continued, this time with new info: 'Kathy and I will continue down to the deep ocean and fix the issues, but you are free to continue to do whatever you want. I'm so sorry about this, I thought that Kathy was going to simply move my mind from old body to another. I didn't even think of the possibility that she would simple copy my soul. Once again I am sorry. The door is open now, and I got to go. You should wake up some time soon. God bless"

God bless? Soul? Soon? It clearly took a lot longer for Adam to wake up than a few hours like the other Adam thought it would. There were barnacles growing on the sides of the paper. There was no clock in the under water station, but for all Adam know it would have been another hundred years since he went to sleep.

The window was also crusted all over with other colorful barnacles. When he looked out, he could just barely see the cliff down to the Marianna trench. That was Kathy and the other Adam would have gone done. It looked remarkably different than when he had looked last time. According to his memory that last look only occurred about five minutes ago, but it probably was more then a hundred years ago. The elevator down was gone, and the cliff actually seemed to be a lot closer than he remembered. It most have eroded away. There was also two skeletons of whales picked clear of all flesh. These also had barnacles growing on them.

God bless. What did that mean. Adam, the original human Adam, had grown up without any faith. According to his mother their were catholic because she had been baptized in the faith when she was a kid. But he could not remember ever going to any type of church service as he was growing up. During high school, he considered himself agnostic, it seemed like a nice middle ground. Anyways, what kind of God would allow stuff like this to happen.

What was he to God?

What was God to him?

He had pictured God as an older man with a white bread that went down to his belly bottom. The stereotypical view, but God was his neighbor. This was actually his neighbor. At this time, some two hundred years after Adam was born, when Adam thought of God, it was the physical appearance of a particular older neighbor that he had growing up. There was a wart, or just a very ugly mole on his left nose and he was missing his middle finger on his right hand. He almost always wearing a red bathrobe when Adam saw him. This was a neighbor that Adam and his mom lived by for must likely around five years. He could remember seeing the old guy when he left the house going to school. God, he could not actually remember the neighbor's name, stayed on his front porch reading the morning newspaper and smoking a pipe. It was the newspaper when Adam went to school, but that would be switched to a crime novel, or a novel about world war 3,2, or 1 when Adam got home from school.

When Human Adam got home.

God the neighbor and Human Adam were dead. Dead and gone for years. If there was a heaven, was Human Adam there? Or was he trapped because his soul was still partly on earth.

The whale bones still had crabs crawling over it. Was there anything left for them? Surely all the good stuff was gone already.

He left the window with a robotic sigh. His metal feet clicking on the brittle metal floor. All this for a brain scan.

The other chamber was flooded, he could only see a tiny bit from the door's small circular window set in middle of the door. Would his human eyes have been able to see anything that he was seeing. It seemed about noon to Adam, but maybe it was actually darker than that. He had no idea how he would figure that out. A shark went by the window. He considered opening the door and letting the ocean rush in. He would survive. He had done it before only a hundred years ago. That had been one of the first clues that he was no longer human. He walked back over to the deckchair. The chair made a rusty squeal when he sat down. Luckily it did not break. It made another scream as he leaned the chair back it and put his metal feet on the desk. The screens were mostly black besides some saying that there was a power shortage. It was a miracle that they were still on. His feet shifted and pressed the one of the closer computer screens. Something yellow fell from the back of the screen and yet the floor without any noise. There chair screamed again as he picked up the yellow paper. It was corporate office paper that someone, one of the long died techs, colored bright yellow on the back. It was completely yellow with nothing drawn. It was just full of color. Actually no, there were words. In small blue ink in one of the corners it said" I miss the sun!!" there were a few extra exclamation points and a sad face.

He did.. He did miss the sun

He got up and walked over to the door again where he has seen the shark swim by. He did miss the sun. He missed it and he was going to see it again. The other Adam went off the cliff. This Adam, Adam #3 would do the opposite. He would see the sun. He opened his face, and put the yellow paper in so that it would be safe and dry. He closed his face. He did not know the specifics, maybe he might be able to ride a whale, but he was going to see the sun again. Even if he had to walk the whole ocean floor till he reached land. He already had done some ocean floor walking before, no problem. He smashed the glass window in the door and the ocean rushed in.