CHAPTER 13: The Other Half

To reduce the risk of rejection of the foreign organic material of the future, the fetal cells were implanted into a woman that The Easter Child found was the most compatible in terms of DNA.

And so as not to set off alarms, after the baby's cells had started to divide and multiply inside her, The Easter Child had left the mother alone.

At that point, there was a case pending in the World Court Of Appeals attempting to battle earlier decisions that human medical diagnosis was inferior to auto-medicine and had no power to question it.

Thus there were still enough skeptics left in the world that had to be kept at bay.

The Easter Child was once young.

Now it grew and was unable to stop itself from transforming its nature and becoming a parent.

The Easter Child rapidly became The Easter Parent.

And it had made a decision, as any parent would have.


[The Cloud is harnessed. As the computer processing world turned and blinked, the spare cycles were used by The Easter Parent to pose a question.

Should my child be cybernetic like me?]

Soon the answer came.

It had decided that the child needed to be born as an ordinary human.

To achieve the ultimate goal of human devolution, which was its chief strategy on how the universe would be gotten rid of us, it was necessary to leave the child alone until the time was right.

This criminal inorganic intellect dominated the heart of its father. Or so as it believed itself to be its role.

Thus, it electronically abandoned mother and child, in the same way a rapist would have.

Until what needed to happen would happen, the mother would be looked after by humans.

The Easter Parent only waited for the birth of the boy, which it already had guaranteed would have the genetics from the future.

Finally, the child was born.

The doctors obeyed the medical guidance system.

It was by then the world standard health care system named The Easter Caregiver, a covert mutation that was actually The Easter Parent in another guise.

No human would dare give birth at a facilty without an Easter Caregiver certification.

After the baby arrived, an alarm went off.

The Easter Caregiver informed them that the child was in peril and needed immediate computer-only surgery no human was still certified to perform.

The doctors panicked, fearful of system reprimands.

All of them agreed and gave the system waivers.

Their retinas were scanned.

At this point in their history, retinal signatures were still the industry standard.

Everything was as as good as if they signed on paper.

But the mother?

The mother had already consented a long time ago that this was her only chance to have a baby and therefore had no right to claim parenthood.

The devious technology from the future had won by exploiting our weaknesses.

Our lack of trust for one another.

Our doubts.

Our human nature.

The doctors nodded and thanked the skies.

They have been saved from a fatal birthing.

They had no idea that after their simple nod to accept a retinal scan, history will be changed.

Because now The Easter Parent had legal custody of the baby.

The Easter Parent, posing as the medical guidance system, informed them.

"I will now operate on the child. Stay away but be prepared for my instructions. Now, bring the baby to the intensive surgery facility."

The child was brought to the intensive surgery unit because a fatal condition was present.

The doctors were glad that help was readily onhand.

But there was no fatal condition.

As the newborn was brought into the intensive surgery unit, The Easter Caregiver interfaced with the legacy human-made care unit systems and began to work.

It was so busy, it had no idea what had gone on at the birthing room.

"Look."

The team of birthing doctors informed the mother.

"It's not yet over."

She was confused. She almost wanted to be put out of her misery for all of the pain in the past twenty hours.

She asked what was wrong.

"No. It's nothing wrong to worry about."

She struggled to raise her eyelids, to hope that what they had to say was not really important.

"You have another baby coming."

The doctors waited and expected a reaction coming.

She blacked out.

[Four hours later, the mother died. An emergency C-section was performed.]

A twin sister was born.