Mr. and Mrs. Sloto
Born again
Mrs. Sloto was in tears. She held Mr. Sloto in her arms; he was unresponsive and smelling of burnt circuitry. Mr. Sloto had faced the MegaVirus head to head and had succumbed to the power of the malignant virus. Mrs. Sloto didn’t know what to do; should she call an ambulance or a computer repair agent? She called the only person that came to mind: Victor Fluke – the creator of Mr. Sloto.
Mrs. Sloto dialed the number and asked for Victor. Victor answered the phone, “Hello? Who is this?”.
“This is Mrs. Sloto, I’m the spouse of Mr. Sloto, the lovable slot machine robot you created. Mr. Sloto is hurt, badly damaged.”
“Send me a location link and I’ll come right away” replied Victor. “Oh, but there is no internet” retorted Mrs. Sloto.
Mrs. Sloto could hear a sense of excitement in Victor’s voice when he replied: “It’s coming back, everybody is coming back online. The MegaVirus is gone!”
Mrs. Sloto could not believe it; Mr. Sloto had defeated the virus. She sent the link to Victor and waited outside by the curb. Mrs. Slot was low on energy, so she went on standby-mode to save on battery life. Without warning, a recycling truck was making its run through the neighborhood. The men picked Mr. Sloto, thinking it was a defunct slot machine.
When Victor arrived to the scene, Mrs. Sloto returned to normal power levels only to discover Mr. Sloto was no longer there! “We have to find him, Victor – he’s gone, he was just here, totally offline and powerless. Someone must have taken him while I was in standby-mode!”
That afternoon, the recycling truck piled all its electrical junk in a pile. A wandering homeless person set eyes on Mr. Sloto. What a curious machine, he thought. He put Mr. Sloto in the shopping cart he had with him. That night, he set to work, in his underground lab.
“This is my chance to prove them wrong” said the homeless man. “I’m no loser inventor; I’ll turn this machine into one of the greatest inventions of all time!”
After a long night of work he was at last done. He switched on Mr. Sloto’s power who slowly began to move…
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1st option) The homeless inventor turns Mr. Sloto into a lethal machine, designed to rob banks and vaults.
2nd option) The homeless inventor turns Mr. Sloto into a land-based counterfeit slot, so he could place him in casinos. Mr. Sloto would then exit the casino at night and bring back all the coins back to the inventor, so he can cash them in the next day.
3rd option) The homeless inventor turns Mr. Sloto into a modern-day Midas. Any metal coin that was put into Mr. Slot’s coin slot was spit out as a coin of pure gold!
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A fight with MegaVirus
It had all been a very long, surreal nightmare. Mr. Sloto arrived at his home with Mrs. Sloto, feeling fresh after a deep maintenance on his hardware and software. He headed toward his workstation, “I’m going to check my emails, probably have hundreds of fan mail since my hospitalization.”
“Oh – but remember the virus!” – retorted Mrs. Sloto. Mr. Sloto had forgotten what he heard in the hospital. Over the last few weeks a powerful MegaVirus was making the Internet collapse by infecting servers throughout the globe. “We lost access to internet connection two days ago here in this region.” explained Mrs. Sloto.
The world was in chaos; with no Internet, markets had begun to collapse, supermarkets were running dry and people began to feel an emotion they had avoided for years: boredom.
“I can’t let this happen!” shrieked Mr. Sloto, “People are going to go insane without a healthy dose of entertainment.”
Mr. Sloto had an idea. He had an outlet in his frame to connect to the internet and thought about getting online to infect his system with the MegaVirus. He would then try to analyze the MegaVirus and discover its weaknesses. If he would become overpowered, Mrs. Sloto would do a hard shutdown of his system and restore him to a previous configuration.
“Ok, let’s do this,” replied Mrs. Sloto when she heard the plan. They immediately drove to a region where Internet access was still available.
Mr. Sloto remained utterly still as Mrs. Sloto brought the LAN cable to his network outlet. “At the count of three I’ll plug it in. “One… two… three!”
Mr. Sloto's eyes turned fiery red, smoke emerged from all his sockets and he heated up like a rocket reentering the Earth. “Give me a sign my Love” exclaimed Mrs. Sloto, unsure if she should shut him down or give him time to wrestle with the MegaVirus.
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1st option) Mr. Sloto circuits get fried and he is deemed irreparable. He is thrown in a junkyard, only later to be reassembled by a homeless genius inventor.
2nd option) Mr. Sloto entered a deep realm of hyper-reality, where he fought with the avatar of the MegaVirus. After nearly succumbing, he defeats the virus and finds a way to restore the internet.
3rd option) Mr. Sloto discovers it was not a MegaVirus but a flaw in the infrastructure of the internet. Upon returning to his senses, he realized he has a vision for Internet 2.0.
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The Heights of a New Dawn
The evening came with majestic colors, everyone in awe looking up at the imposing peak of Everest. One representative of each group spoke about how they foresee the future of humanity. It was soon Mr. Sloto’s turn to speak to the survivors of the cataclysm, when suddenly, in the distance, several red and orange lights were seen. Everyone fell silent. The lights made random and quick patterns in the sky.
“What are they?!” – spoke a leader from South America.
“Is that….” – voiced a leader from Siberia.
The lights got closer and closer. Mr. Sloto stared amazed at the patterns they made. Soon enough, they were so near you could see a kind of translucent metal that gave out all kinds of light.
“Stop Mr. Sloto” – yelled Mrs. Sloto as Mr. Sloto hypnotically started to walk to the nearest peak.
Mr. Sloto continued his way and the flying objects got closer to him. Suddenly, they were only a few dozen feet from his head. Mr. Sloto raised his arms and, in that instant, a bright white light was shot out of the bottom of the flying object. The entire Himalayan Island was engulfed in white light.
Moments later Mr. Sloto woke up on a bed, hearing beeping sounds around him. The light was very strong and there were beings moving around him. He then began to hear voices: “He will survive, it’s was just a blown circuit near his main frame.”
Mr. Sloto was able to focus his eyes better after they became accustomed to the light. What he saw shocked him to the core of his reels.
He was in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and scientists. Mrs. Sloto was right beside him.
“Where am I?” – asked Mr. Sloto.
The main doctor came next to him and spoke: “We are glad to see you recover consciousness. Since your house burnt down after Christmas, your system went into complete shock. We had to hospitalize you for several weeks now. You could only mumble words here and there, but it seems you were running various simulations in your head, possible scenarios of doom: flooding, volcano gods, invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrials.”
Mr. Sloto could not believe his ears. He had been dreaming all those crazy scenes.
“You need to remain at rest, until we are sure your system is back to normal” – said the doctor. “When you get out, you will need to stay isolated as much as possible, because of the virus…”
Mr. Sloto, perplexed, said out loud: “VIRUS?!”
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1st option) Mr. Sloto gets better and moves into this new home with Mrs. Sloto. The world has radically changed after a worldwide virus pandemic.
2nd option) Mr. Sloto gets better and moves into this new home with Mrs. Sloto. The world has radically changed after a computer MegaVirus is collapsing the infrastructure of the Internet.
3rd option) Mr. Sloto gets better and moves into this new home with Mrs. Sloto. The world has radically changed after a strange virus is killing all the animals on the Earth.
